Dr. Marisa Franco: ...friendships are not inferior to romantic relationships

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Making new friends, and deepening older friendships, is possible at any age. Find out why that’s important in our conversation with psychologist and friendship expert Dr. Marisa Franco, author of the book, “Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make–and Keep–Friends”. Her website is https://drmarisagfranco.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:10.9	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:13.3	On this episode, we'll look at the importance of friendship in our lives and why we shouldn't take it for granted.
0:18.6	Joining us as psychologist and friendship expert, Dr. Marissa G. Franco, who says that making new friends
0:24.8	and deepening older friendships is possible at any age.
0:28.4	Dr. Franco is a professor at the University of Maryland who's done research on friendship
0:32.7	all over the world, and she's the author of the book, Platonic, how the science of attachment can help
0:39.2	you make and keep friends. Dr. Franco, we thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having
0:45.0	me. I'm happy to be here. This is a topic that affects all of us, friendship. And I'm wondering
0:51.0	why you decided to write the book and what your goal is with it.
0:56.1	Yeah, that's a great question.
0:58.0	So in my young 20s, I went through these romantic relationship breakups and I felt so bad.
1:05.0	So I decided to start this wellness group with my friends where every week we met up and we cooked, we did yoga together,
1:12.3	we meditated, and it was so healing. And it made me really question, I think, some of the
1:18.0	negative beliefs that made me feel so bad at the end of these relationships, which was really
1:22.5	the idea that like romantic love is the love that makes me lovable. It's the only love that
1:27.0	counts. And I'm only love that counts.
1:27.9	And I'm only truly loved if I have a romantic partner.
1:33.5	And I looked around at my friends and I was like, wow, like they really love me.
1:37.6	They really show up for me.
1:38.9	Why doesn't this love matter?
1:41.3	It's like we have gold under our feet and we just see it as concrete. So I just
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