ep 26: Making new friends in adulthood & friendship breakups
Hilarious Humanitarians Podcast
Deanna Silverman, LCSW & Erin Prewitt
4.8 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Adulting is hard and so can the process of making new friends well into adulthood. In episode 26 the topic of friendship breakups is discussed, we are talking about how to recover from a breakup or do the breaking up, in addition to exploring how people can go about meeting new friends and cultivating awesome new friendships during times in our lives when we thought it might be impossible.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. It is episode number 26, the hilarious humanitarian's podcast. I am Francis |
| 0:11.4 | Etchevira, licensed marriage and family therapist. And I am Deanna Silverman, licensed clinical |
| 0:16.7 | social worker. We're here to talk about friendships today. |
| 0:22.1 | And if there's one thing I hear all the time, Deanna, it's people, you know, you get |
| 0:26.5 | the people that say, oh my gosh, it's so hard to find a man or a woman or whatever, |
| 0:29.4 | a partner. |
| 0:30.1 | It is even harder to find friends, even though we're completely connected in so many ways. |
| 0:36.1 | I agree. |
| 0:37.2 | I agree. So before we jump into that, we want to remind you. We know you're listening to this podcast, but please, if you haven't already, subscribe and make sure to rate us. And we are fans of you going around to random people's phones as long as you don't get in trouble and subscribing as well. No shame in our game. |
| 0:56.1 | Not even announce. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:02.7 | We're going to get an email from someone's holding us responsible for getting in trouble. |
| 1:03.5 | It's going to happen. |
| 1:08.7 | Okay, so we're going to cover a couple of articles today that we found talking on the science of friendships, the ways to make friends |
| 1:11.5 | according to science and also where do you meet people? Also, the health benefits of friendships |
| 1:17.2 | according to the Mayo Clinic. So that makes us sound very, very educated, legit. Like we know what we're |
| 1:26.3 | talking about. And also why best friend breakup suck more than getting |
| 1:30.8 | dumped by a partner. At least it can suck worse. It's possible. Thinking about my last |
| 1:37.3 | breakup, my last friend breakup hurt more than my last relationship breakup. A lot of the articles I was reading, it definitely says that. |
| 1:46.2 | A lot of people in response to like being, you know, surveyed or whatnot, yeah, my |
| 1:53.3 | friendships were as significant as romantic relationships, if not more significant. |
| 2:00.5 | They were talking about how like pop culture, the music we listen to, |
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