101: Galentines Day Special: Making Friends in Adulthood, Navigating Changes, Friendship Breaks Ups and More

Speaking Our Minds

Join us for a special Galentine's Day episode this week where our besties Savannah and Amanda join us in the studio to talk about all things friendship! Including:

• The various levels and types of friendships and managing expectations (acquaintances vs casual friends vs intimate friends)
• How finding, maintaining, and navigating friendships change as we get older, from our teens to 20s to 30’s+
• Navigating a friendship while respecting differences between you two
• Friendship break ups or when a friendship drifts apart and the loss that comes with that

While our culture tends to prioritize romance, psychological science has been exploring the need for platonic relationships and the ways that they improve our overall well-being.

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Sources:

The science of why friendships keep us healthy: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/06/cover-story-science-friendship

Research suggests that we lose 50% of our social circle every 7 years.*

• Tulin, M., Mollenhorst, G., & Volker, B. (2021). Whom do we lose? The case of dissimilarity in personal networks. Social Networks, 65, 51–62.

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