Abstract
Friendships help to preserve physical and psychological wellbeing, but they are likely to atrophy if people concentrate their energies on a spouse or de facto partner. To shed light on the way marital and de facto partnerships affect friendships, the present study predicted verbal intimacy in cross-sex friendships on the basis of gender, level of commitment to a partner, and level of self-disclosure to a partner. Data were collected from primary and secondary school teachers. Overall, findings do not support the notion that people's limited needs or energy for intimacy are divided across relationships. Neither do they indicate that people with a high level of commitment to a partner disclose less to cross-sex friends.
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