Even when we talk about female friendships, it's often about like the bitchiness of it, of like,

oh, girls can never get on, oh, girls are catty. When I looked at male friendships, they don't

understand the intensity of a female friendship breakup because they don't have the intensity to

begin with. They don't have the closeness or the connection. Hello, and welcome back to should delete delete that. I'm Alex Light. And I'm M. Clarkson. Lovey Lippi. Thank you, friend. It's a really dark red. It's really nice. It's very dark. Autumn is here. Autumn is here. It is very exciting. I don't know how we're friends. I don't know how we're friends. But that's's relevant it's very relevant to this conversation we are on

a theme after last week's episode with well after last week's therapy session we thought we wanted to do

more in this space i am concerned that this isn't going to read into this be like okay you had a live

therapy session and now you're having an episode about how to

break up with a friend.

Like, are you trying to like slow, quit the podcast on us?

If there is a long silence that lasts forever next week, you'll know what's happened.

But you won't, but you can be sure you won't have ghosted me.

Because we're going to deal with this head on.

I was challenged here.

I have to actually go home and I've got a lot of thinking to do after this episode.

For the avoidance of anxiety, we can stress that our friendship is fine.

But we are very interested in the idea of female friendship.

And I think rather than closing any circles last week's episode just opened more for me.

And I've been thinking, obviously, because I've actually said it to so many of my friends since we recorded, saying,

oh, me and Al did therapy last week.

And everyone was like, first of all, witch owl. And then when I explained that, it's you, I was like, oh, my, that's actually really cool. Really cool. So many of my girlfriends have been, and what did you learn? And what did you think? And like, this is, and it made me realize that we're kind of all on the edge of this conversation already. Do you know what I mean? We're kind of ready to have it, right?

Totally. And I think I'm fascinated, but we really dig into this in the episode about how female friendship specifically is framed as like trivial and frivolous and just like something of it, you know, like girly and stupid.

You know, it's just a bit like surface level.

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