I think the issue may be that "good friends" and "most intense friendship" are very different entities. I'm sure I don't have more than five of the "most inten

I think the issue may be that "good friends" and "most intense friendship" are very different entities. I'm sure I don't have more than five of the "most intense" sort of friends, but there are a lot more people than that who I care deeply about. Relationships that are very close when 'active' are presumably a different category - I think most of us have old friends and family who we feel strong connections to, but don't actually talk to on a daily or weekly basis. Time places hard limits on how many people we see frequently and at length, but frequency and quality are fairly independent axes. I'm assuming "most intense" requires a high score on both.