Hey, ladies: Have you been trapped into "man-keeping" your boyfriend or husband? asked in Vogue . That's the new term for the widespread phenomenon of women assuming full responsibility for a couple's social life—and serving as the only person their emotionally isolated male partner can confide in. Coined by Stanford University fellow Angelica Puzio Ferrara, mankeeping describes the hard work a woman "does to keep her less-than-motivated male partner" from "succumbing to the male loneliness epidemic." In 2021, 15% of men reported having zero close friends, up from 3% in 1990. Today, just 20% of men say they reach out to friends to discuss personal issues. That leaves women with the "unreciprocated" burden of meeting all of their partner's social and emotional needs, and planning get-to

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