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Intimacy in Friendships: Having Healthier Friendships and Making Friends As An Adult with Dr. Marisa Franco

She's So Lucky

She's So Lucky

Lesalfred, #Shessolucky, Entrepreneurship, Balancedles, Business, Self-improvement, Balancedblackgirl, Education

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

As adults, building and maintaining friendships is a challenge. What felt so easy as kids, now feels like an overwhelming task full of rejection, uncertainty, and confusion. But connection plays a huge role in our overall health and well-being. Studies show that it’s even more important than regular exercise!

So in today’s episode, we’re diving into platonic intimacy with Dr. Marisa Franco. Dr. Franco is a psychologist, international speaker, and professor. She’s also the author of The New York Times best seller Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make and Keep Friends.

Together, we discuss the importance of friendship, the science behind our need for platonic connection, and how simple it can be to make friends as an adult.

We Also Talk About…

  • How friendship is acted out across gender lines
  • Loneliness as a stress experience & critical longevity indicator
  • Treating our friendships with as much care, excitement, and celebration as our romantic partnerships
  • How healthy conflict in relationships can lead to deeper intimacy and understanding
  • Friendships throughout times of transition


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0:00.0

Welcome to Balance Black Girl. Thank you so much for joining me. My name is Les. I'm your host,

0:11.3

and I appreciate you being here. This month on the podcast, we're talking about intimacy and

0:16.4

connection and not necessarily in the ways you may think. Last week, I talked about why intimacy

0:22.5

and connection were so important for our health. So if you haven't listened to that episode yet,

0:26.6

I highly recommend you do, and today we're talking about the importance of pletonic intimacy

0:31.7

and maintaining healthy friendships. Navigating friendship is one of the hardest things about

0:36.9

getting older. Making friends and keeping friends feels really hard when we don't have the

0:42.0

structure of school or activities to facilitate the process like we do when we're younger.

0:48.1

You throw in life changes such as moving to a new city, getting engaged and married,

0:53.5

having kids, getting divorced, switching career paths, you throw those things into the mix,

0:58.3

and navigating friendship as an adult can feel even harder. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Marissa

1:05.3

Franco, and we talk about the significance of friendship. Why are friendships are so important? Why

1:11.8

there's some of the most intimate relationships we can have, ways we can be better friends with one

1:17.0

another, how to navigate, maintaining friendships, and establishing new friendships and some of those

1:22.1

life changes that I just mentioned, as well as the million dollar question, how do we make friends

1:28.4

as an adult? Dr. Marissa Franco is a psychologist, international speaker, and New York Times best

1:34.4

selling author known for digesting and communicating science in ways that resonate deeply

1:39.6

enough with people to change their lives. She works as a professor at the University of Maryland

1:44.8

and authored the New York Times bestseller pletonic, how the science of attachment can help you

1:50.4

make and keep friends. She writes about friendship for psychology today, and has been a featured

1:55.7

connection expert for major publications like The New York Times, The Telegraph, and Vice.

2:01.4

Now this episode is going to make you want to love on your friends, and we'll hopefully inspire

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