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Are We Friends Yet? How to Deepen Your Relationships and Create the Community You Need
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2026
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Friendship Disappointment (And Why it’s Actually a Good Thing)
If you have ever come home from a hard friendship moment and thought, “Why does this keep happening to me? Why am I always the one who ends up hurt?” I want to offer you a reframe that I genuinely cannot stop thinking about.
It came from Molly Menning, who was on last week’s episode (EP191) talking about how she built a weekly drop-in play group for local moms from scratch.
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I don't have kids. I almost skipped past this one for that reason, and I would have missed the book that finally gave me language for something I've been circling for years. Stephanie Malia Krauss's framing is weather. Four forces are hitting most of ...more |
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| Here's the thing that stopped me cold early in this book. Connection has no definition. Not in the dictionary in any useful sense, and not in the American Psychological Association's list of terms. Meanwhile disconnection shows up as a symptom in nea ...more | |
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I have recorded well over a hundred episodes about friendship, and I still filled the margins of this one with notes. Priya Vulchi's argument is that friendship is political, and that we've been handed a version of it that is warm, cozy, polite, and d ...more |
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| I am late diagnosed ADHD, six years in, and I read a lot in this space. The distinction Caroline Maguire draws between masking and adapting is something I had not seen anyone put into words before, and it reorganized how I think about my own friendsh ...more | |
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I talk about friendship for a living and I still had eye-opening moments in this book, which is not a sentence I get to write very often. Here's what Danielle Bayard Jackson does that I hadn't seen anyone else do. She explains the mechanics. Most of u ...more |
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I read this one the week it came out, and I have not stopped handing the language in it to other people since. Here's what I think Anna Goldfarb gets right that most friendship advice misses. She doesn't tell you to try harder. She tells you the rules ...more |
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I read this as someone who has never been divorced, and I'd still hand it to anybody. Oona's five phases of divorce grief gave me language for something I've watched friends move through with no map at all: heartbreak, rollercoaster, mending, letting ...more |
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