[Locke]

What I learnt, as an adult, is that trust becomes rarer and rarer. Education presents controlled environments, all the way to Uni, that forces people together to become friends both through deliberate friend making exorcises but also in the fact that you're just around each other all the time, by the time it gets to Uni you can literally end up living with them as well.

When you start work, it's really different. You may have people you get on with at work, while you're there, but whereas before all people were doing was going home to their Mum and their dinner by this age, it's more than likely that they are going to their own house to their own lives they are living. As such, even friendship that goes anywhere beyond the workplace is very very difficult to achieve, they have their own friends and their own lives already, let alone anything romantic, let alone even close trust built friendships.