#160 - Why Friendships End

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

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4.6 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Many people get involved with therapy or life coachinghere at Growing Self in order to improve all their relationships — not just their romantic partnerships or marriages. Let's face it: Friendships can present their own unique challenges.

If this is an area of growth for you, too, you'll definitely want to listen to this episode. I'll be discussing:

Why friendships end
How the dynamics of friendships are similar to and different from romantic relationships
How to mend a friendship that has been feeling strained
What to do about toxic friendships
How to cope if you've been ghosted by a friend
The path of healing after an unexpected friendship loss
How to end a friendship compassionately
How to change a friendship if you need different boundaries with a friend

I hope these ideas help you strengthen your friendships and keep healthy people in your life!

xoxo,

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, LMFT, LP, BCC

Ps: Thoughts? Questions? Comments? Here's the link to join the discussion at GrowingSelf.com

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0:00.0	This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bavi, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.
0:07.1	I'm a vampire.
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0:19.1	I'm a vampire.
0:19.7	I'm a vampire. I'm a vampire, I'm a vampire, I'm a vampire, I'm a vampire.
0:23.3	That is a band called Wimps with a live version of their song, Vampire.
0:30.6	That's from the 2015 EP called Suitcase.
0:35.3	The whole EP is pretty cool, so I am linking to it in the show notes of this episode
0:41.4	in case you too need more wimps in your life. And I thought that this song in particular was a great
0:47.9	intro to our topic today because today we're going to be talking about friendships friendships that end why they end and how to
0:59.1	handle it with integrity and love when they do end why whether it's you needing to end a
1:05.7	relationship whether it's getting broken up with by a friend and that it feels kind of traumatic for you
1:12.3	understandably and also how to handle tricky friendship situations um with grace so that is what
1:21.2	we're doing on the show today and hey before we jump into our topic i just want to also say
1:27.3	thank you so much just for listening and being here, whether it's your first time listening or whether you're a regular listener.
1:35.7	I just, I really appreciate you not just, and you know what I really like about you guys is that you're not just sort of passively listening and soaking it all up, although that's
1:45.8	fine too. But, you know, we've been hearing from so many of you with follow-up questions or
1:52.8	comments or, you know, sharing episodes of the show or even, you know, just letting us know how
1:59.2	much all this means to you. And I just want to say that
2:02.5	this, you know, it goes both ways. And I'm also just so grateful and appreciative of you. I really
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