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HERself

314. Attachment Styles in Adult Friendships with Dr. Marisa Franco

HERself

Abby and Amy

Grow, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Parenting, Kids & Family, Opportunity, Honest, Real, Vulnerable, Purpose, Best Self, Self-improvement, Future, Comparison

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Friendship is one of the topics we get asked about most, so we brought back Dr. Marisa Franco, one of the world’s leading voices on human connection. We dive straight into the heart of modern friendship and start with something that influences every relationship we have: attachment styles. Marisa explains how these patterns begin in childhood, how they show up differently in adulthood, and why none of us fit neatly into one category. We explore one of the biggest questions we hear from ...

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It's often not saying no that harms the friendship as much as it as how we say no, right? And so

0:05.7

it's one thing to say you are completely overwhelming me. Like you need to step back and find

0:11.1

some way to take care of your problems on your own. And it's another thing to say, man, like, I really

0:16.7

wish I could be there for you. I really do. And like, this is what's going on in my life, you know?

0:22.8

Like every day, it's so many hours with the kids. And so, like, I know that there's this form of

0:28.9

support I can offer you that may not be exactly like fulfilling all of your needs, but I just

0:33.7

want to be really transparent with you because I love you and I don't want to keep letting you down.

0:41.5

I'm Amy.

0:43.1

And I'm Abby.

0:44.6

And as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others.

0:48.7

But your life isn't supposed to look like hers.

0:52.1

Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions and always

0:55.9

being willing to grow with a purpose. We get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the

1:01.3

challenges and triumphs we all face. Every woman listening gets the opportunity to choose what

1:06.9

life looks like for herself.

1:18.4

The topic we get asked about more than any other topic is friendships, especially friendships in motherhood because we know how hard they can be to make, to keep, and to go deeper with.

1:25.2

And so we have Dr. Morsafran Franco on the podcast again. We love having her on

1:29.3

because she is so insightful with not only her encouragement, but her wisdom behind friendship.

1:35.7

There are definitely parts of this interview where Amy and I looked at ourselves and we knew

1:39.9

that we needed some self-awareness, things that happened in the past, things that are

1:43.5

happening right now where we could take these connections deeper and have better relationships if we just did

1:49.4

a few things. So with that, let's get into this interview with Dr. Mursa Franco. We hope you enjoyed it

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