Episode 497

Where Have All the Good Friends Gone?

Feel like you’re the only one keeping your friendships alive?

Bossed Up · Emilie Aries

March 11, 202516m 29s

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Show Notes

Feel like you’re the only one keeping your friendships going? Recently, I received a letter from a listener about an extremely relatable issue: how to build or rebuild stronger friendships when it seems to be increasingly difficult to do so.

You’ve probably experienced some shifts in friend frequency and intensity throughout your adult years. Making plans and finding the right people to share platonic relationships with gets harder as our priorities shift and our lives get more hectic. In this episode, I explore some of the ways I’ve dealt with this increasingly common and publicized problem myself.

Spark some hope with these actionable approaches to fixing your friendships:

Identify exactly what’s missing from your relationships;
Normalize and ritualize casual hosting;
Keep resentment from curbing your call for companions.

Topics

love and relationshipsfriendshipmental health

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