Friendship: The Other Love of Your Life
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re talking about friendships - how to make them better, if it's okay to take breaks and when emotional labor becomes too much. Tonya Mosley is joined by ‘Call Your Girlfriend’ hosts Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman. They share what it was like to write a co-memoir called, “Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close” and offer advice to questions from our listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen Canals, the co-creator of Poz, and you're listening to Truth Be Told. |
| 0:05.0 | I once had a friend who was a true soul sister. |
| 0:11.0 | I mean, we were right or die for each other. We made each other laugh. We cried |
| 0:16.4 | on each other's shoulders. We just got each other. And I knew we'd be friends forever. |
| 0:22.2 | Until we weren't. |
| 0:25.0 | 20 years later, I still think about her, |
| 0:28.0 | what I did wrong in our friendship, |
| 0:30.0 | and what I've done differently since then |
| 0:32.2 | to make certain I never experienced that kind of heartbreak again. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Tanya Mosley and on this episode of truth be told, the importance of friendship |
| 0:42.0 | and how to make and keep friends as a full-grown adult. |
| 0:47.0 | Dear truth be told. |
| 0:49.0 | Dear truth be told. Dear truth be told. |
| 0:51.0 | Dear truth be told. |
| 0:52.0 | I really need your help. I need your. I really need your help. |
| 0:53.0 | I need your help. |
| 0:54.0 | I need your help. We're all adults now and one thing that's true the older you get the harder it is to maintain and make friends. |
| 1:14.9 | So instead of one dilemma this week we're taking on several of your questions about |
| 1:19.6 | friendships and two wise ones. Aminatu Soe and Ann Friedman, |
| 1:25.0 | the co-host of the Call Your Girlfriend Podcast |
| 1:28.0 | and they're also the co-authors of a new book, Big Friendship, |
| 1:31.0 | How We Stay Close. |
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