Hear Me Out: You Don’t Need A BFF

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Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: make the friendship bracelets. Or don’t. Like all relationships, friendships can grow, change… and, yes, end. Sometimes for good reason. But we romanticize the BFF as the goal – to find your person – and that might not be realistic. Author and podcast host Kristen Meinzer joins us to make the case for not needing a best friend forever. If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: [email protected] Podcast production by Maura Currie. Want more Hear Me Out? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/hearmeoutplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This show is about speaking your mind even if your opinion is unpopular, but we know
0:09.3	from empirical research that your real life is probably much more monolithic.
0:14.8	We surround ourselves with people who agree with us because that's more comfortable.
0:20.5	But whether you agree with your friends or not, friendship is a relationship and relationships are complicated.
0:28.0	We're often looking for or maybe clinging to the idea of the one, even platonically. And yet, relationships changed. They sometimes end.
0:38.8	So is the idea of a best friend forever really an exercise in wanting the impossible?
0:45.4	We all have different places that we can fill in in each other's lives and nobody has to be the
0:50.3	best among them.
0:51.3	Why do we have to rank them?
0:52.4	I don't think it
0:53.0	necessarily benefits us to do that in something that's so emotional as
0:56.4	friendship. Kristen Meinzer joins Hear Me Out once again in just a moment.
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