3 Habits of Strong Adult Friendships
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Why are adult friendships so challenging?
You don't need acquaintances. You need friends. And not more friends. You need good ones. A few people in your life that will be there for you no matter what you do. This is a podcast that is going to be different than most. And it's something that I That's been on my heart for a while. And because it's on my heart, I thought I'd share it with you. Making friends as an adult later in life in your thirties, forties, fifties is not easy. And it used to be, didn't it? I watched my kids at the park. And it's no problem for them to just go up and say, hey, you want to start playing? And they play. I heard my daughter go, hey, you want to be my friend? And the other kid goes, yeah. And they go play.
Somewhere along the way, we've struggled with that. It gets weird. It gets awkward. We get older. We get jobs. We grow facial hair. We get busy. And we know what busy does to us. This is an episode on making friends. Let's go.
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Because things are happening in your life right now that are real. I'd be venturing to guess you don't share with people outside the people that know it. Maybe you haven't spoken to a, a child, an adult child that you've had for a long time, or maybe it's a sibling, or maybe it's a job that you wish that you had and you're unhappy with your career, but you're just not telling anybody and you're just lonely. You need somebody to talk to. And yeah, you have your therapist maybe, but they're not like a friend. Somebody you have to pay. I'm not saying therapists are bad. Therapists are great. I have therapists. It's you looking around and saying, gosh, there was a part of me when I was younger that I felt like I had people I can rely on.
And I don't know if I have that. Maybe you're one of those that you have a lot more people in your phone than people you can call. So I'm gonna give you some thoughts that have been, that I've been chewing on for a while on how to make better friends at this point of our life. Because I can tell you, I don't want surface level. I no longer desire surface level friendship. That might've been me when I was younger, that is not me now. I feel like when we were kids, you wanted to have a lot of friends, right? You get into high school, whose can be most popular, who can know the most amount of people. In college, who can know the most amount of people? And it's like, as you go along that path, people kind of fade in and out.
You start doing life and then you realize, hey, look, I'm not going to school anymore.
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