#3 The best long reads I've discovered this month.

Why millennials are quitting the rat race and where have all my guy friends gone?

Welcome to this month’s best long reads! For any newbies; this is a series where I share the best long reads I’ve discovered over the month and a TL;DR cheat sheet, so you can get the gist without reading the entire article.

Next week, I’ll be sending out my favourite podcast episodes from the month and the following week I’ll be sending out the books I read and loved in May — I’ve been listening to some great audiobooks on Spotify, so I’m excited to share those with you!

Here are the long reads I’ve loved over the past month:

Where Have All My Guy Friends Gone?

By Sarah Wheeler for The Cut

TL;DR: My very first friend was a boy. He lived in the house across the road and we’d catch the bus home from school together before riding our bikes around the neighbourhood and risking broken bones on my backyard trampoline. He was just the first in the many male friends that peppered my life throughout my high school and uni years, friendships that were filled with deep laughter and the opportunit…