Median distance to a massive companion (mass ratio = 1/4) for disc and lenticular descendant galaxies that have lost their bar and have not undergone a major merger (green line) versus barred galaxies that have not undergone a major merger as a function of time since z = 1. The shaded area corresponds to the 20th and 80th percentiles of the distribution. Galaxies that have lost their bars are closer to their nearest massive companion than galaxies that have retained their bars.