Unfortunately, I do agree that the idea that friendship is based on egoism. There's this awesome episode of Friends where Joey challenges Phoebe to find some way of helping other people that is purely for them and doesn't give any sort of self-satisfaction. Obviously the reason the story line is so funny is because she can't. Everything she does makes her at least feel good about herself. This article reminds me of that episode because there's always going to be part of the relationship that is for you. You can care a lot about someone but you always want the reciprocation of those feelings. No matter how much we try to be altruistic, there will always be egoism in the equation.
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