Gemma Spake

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Hello, everybody.

I'm Gemma Spake, and welcome back to The Psychology of Your 20s, the podcast where we talk through the biggest changes, moments, and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology.

hello everybody welcome back to the show welcome back to the podcast it is so great to have you here back for another episode as we of course break down the psychology of our 20s sometimes we have these episodes where i just go i cannot believe we have never spoken about this before

We are like 300, maybe even 400 episodes in, and we have never spoken about this topic.

Today, we're going to talk about friendship trios.

We know from countless studies and even so many episodes that we've done just how important our friends are, not just for our mental health, but for our

physical longevity even but what kind of happens what changes when it's not just you and another best friend and it's not a huge friendship group either it's like this weird middle ground three people

the trio.

That can get, and I know we've seen examples of this, like really complicated, not just because friendships are in themselves complicated, but because of this unique platonic triangle dynamic.

It can be a beautiful one.