Interview: Making and keeping friends as a grown-up with Marisa Franco

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Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In case you didn't know, we're still making two episodes a month for our Patreon and Apple Plus subscribers. We wanted to give all of our listeners a little preview of our most recent episode! Consider joining our Patreon to listen to the rest of the episode(or watch the episode!), get additional bonus episodes, ad-free episodes, and join a community of Terribles. (Or, if you’re an Apple Podcast listener, you can sign up for TTFA Premium right in the app!) _ Have you thought at some point in your adult life, I wish I had more friends? Maybe you moved to a new city, saw your social life dwindle after having kids, or spent all your time and energy on your romantic relationships. No matter how you got there, trying to make friends as an adult is a really hard task! To try and help us all be better friends, we called in an expert: Marisa Franco is a professor and studies and writes about friendship and human connection. She is the author of Platonic: How the science of attachment can help you make- and keep- friends. Marisa and Nora discuss how important friendships are to our mental health and how we can all strengthen our friendships. Please send us your questions and comments about this episode or any other! You can email us at ttfapremium@feelingsand.co or leave us a voicemail at 612-568-4441. — Check us out on YouTube. Find all our shows and more at feelingsand.co

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by The Hartford, a leading provider of employee benefits and income protection products that is dedicated to standing behind U.S. workers to help them pursue their goals and get through tough times.
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0:19.6	If it feels like we're living in lonely times, that's because we are.
0:28.6	In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General published an advisory titled Our Epidemic of Loneliness and
0:37.5	isolation.
0:39.2	This is something that they do only for urgent public health issues and that is what loneliness is.
0:45.4	It is an urgent public health issue that according to many studies affects more people
0:51.7	than diabetes or smoking-related illnesses.
0:56.2	I have felt lonely as an adult.
0:58.6	Most people have.
0:59.4	It's hard not to in the US in this era. We work a lot, we work from home a lot, we have a lot to do, we don't have a lot of time to be. We live in communities that aren't really communities all the time.
1:15.8	I have lived in neighborhoods where I didn't even meet most of my neighbors because we all just went from our houses to our garages to our cars to work and then back again at night.
1:26.0	But we are built for connection. We crave it and it is vital to our well-being and our health.
1:33.0	And we don't just crave romantic connection or family connection.
1:38.0	We crave friendship.
1:40.0	And for a lot of us, friendship was easier when we were kids. Our friends were the
1:45.8	people who lived on our block or sat next to us in class or were on our sports
1:50.9	teams. And as we got older, our friends were
1:55.0	whoever lived near us in the dorms,
1:57.0	or who shared a cubicle wall with us.
2:00.0	But we're not living in the same world
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