It is easy to get caught up in a new romance and forget about your other friends
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People who are in a new relationship risk losing their closest friends, reveals a new study
We all know the feeling, when you are in a new relationship you want to spend all the time in the world with your new partner.
However, researchers at Oxford University have found that this can be damaging to the relationships that you have already built with your friends.
The study looked the inner core of friendships and how these changed once a person entered a new relationship.
Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford explained that, on average, people who are in new romantic relationships drop two of their inner core friends.
Dunbar said, ‘Your attention is so wholly focused on your romantic partner that you just do not get to see the other folks that you have a lot to do with, and therefore some of those relationships just start to deteriorate.’
Previous research in other studies has revealed that the inner core of friends are vital to a person’s happiness and wellbeing so it is important that people try not to forget their friends in the whirlwind of romance.
By Lauren King
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