Ep 156: FRIENDSHIP STORIES: Soul Mates Christi & Cindy

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Unknown, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Introducing FRIENDSHIP STORIES: a new series where we explore different aspects of one of the most important relationships of our lives. We're going to talk about friendships that work and friendships that end. We're going to hear about soul mates, infidelity, friendship breakups, rogue bridesmaids, and more. Last year when I was researching for my book The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs, I did dozens of interviews with women about their friendships. We talked about the best parts and the worst pain of adult friendship and these stories were fascinating. I am excited to share some of them with you over the next few months leading up to the release of The Life Council. PREORDER The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs We're kicking off the series with soul mates Christi and Cindy, friends who met at work over twenty years ago when they both had toddler daughters. Though they met when their circumstances were similar, things soon changed when Christi's husband joined the military after 9/11, and their family began a life adventure that took them away from their home in Louisiana indefinitely. In our conversation, Christi and Cindy share why their friendship works and how their opposite personalities have shaped them into better people. We talk about their first big fight, the fact that they're jealous of each other's spouses, and how their friendship has survived the long distances. They also give excellent advice for making new friends. I wanted to kick off the Friendship Stories series with a beautiful story, and Christi and Cindy are such an excellent example of what it takes to find and maintain a friendship soul mate. FULL SHOW NOTES ARE HERE SPONSORS: This episode is sponsored by PROSE. Take your free in-depth hair consultation quiz and get 15% off your first order today! SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook JOIN the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN the Secret Stuff patreon BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine PREORDER: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I don't know I think it was a time in our life when we both were terrified and if you're a mother I mean you you know you just you don't know is what I'm doing going to make make a big difference and I'm doing it wrong and doing right, you know, how is this going to affect them?
0:14.4	I think it was that stage, they'll never be another person to me that's like her because we evolved together. Like we just metamorphosed together. Yeah. I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell.
0:43.2	This show is about connection, with each other and with ourselves.
0:47.4	And the hope is that the things we talk about here will be fuel for better conversations
0:51.8	and a personal awareness.
0:53.9	Each episode has a prompt or a topic that I want you to take to your journal, text to a friend,
0:59.4	or share on social media using the hashtag 10 Things to tell you. This is a show about digging
1:05.4	deeper and sharing our stuff. I'll go first. I absolutely love the
1:12.4	conversation you're about to listen to with best friends,
1:15.4	Christie and Cindy. I interviewed them last year when I was writing my new book,
1:19.6	The Life Council, 10 Friends Every Woman Needs, and I was so inspired by their story and their obvious love for one another.
1:27.0	Christine Cindy are total friendship goals, the type of decades long best friend that many of us crave. But here is the thing, even
1:35.3	though pop culture and literature and movies tell us that adult female friendship
1:40.5	should look a lot like Christy and Cindy, I actually think it's pretty rare.
1:46.4	For my hours of interviews with women about their friendships, not to mention the years I've spent talking
1:50.9	about this online, and of course my own life experience I know that adult
1:55.2	friendships have a lot of pain points. Over the next couple of months I'll be sprinkling
2:00.0	in some of these conversations in an episode series I'm calling friendship stories and we will be covering a lot of ground.
2:08.0	We have friendship breakups, infidelity, pen pals who have never met in real life, rogue bridesmaids, cross-gender friendships, so much more.
2:18.0	The Friendship Story Series will be fascinating and it will hopefully give you a lot to think about with your own friendships.
2:25.0	Why some of them lasted, what went wrong with others, why we struggled to make or keep friends.
2:32.0	All of this will be leading up to the release of my book, The Life Council, 10 Friends
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