Making Your Friendships Last Through The Years

We Met At Acme

Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.2 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On today’s full solo episode, I’m talking all about friendship. Friendships throughout high school, college, early 20s, late 20s, marriage, babies, dogs, and more. We’ll cover how to deal with a friend in a life stage behind you, when you can vs. can’t confront a friend, when to walk away from a friendship, what to remember in friendship, ways to make friends later in life, being the single friend, and so much more.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:04.7	Hey guys, welcome back to We Met at Aki.
0:09.7	I am so excited for today's episode because it is a long awaited solo episode.
0:15.1	It is also the last episode in September.
0:17.6	I can't believe how fast that went.
0:20.8	So it's technically my birthday episode because if you're listening to this on Sunday the
0:24.6	24th my birthday is in four days which is crazy and we're going to have a lot of fun talking
0:31.3	about this sensitive subject which it seems like a lot of people are talking about.
0:37.2	So I hope that you get something from this episode that you haven't received from listening
0:41.5	to another episode on this subject because it is a hot topic and it's a topic that something
0:48.2	I've avoided it but I just didn't think that it was a whole episode but it can be.
0:54.1	And I think the way that we're going to talk about it today it should be.
0:58.2	And kind of what prompted this although it's been years in the making was this article
1:06.2	on in the cut and that I'm sure many of you have read but if you haven't read it is basically
1:12.8	called what is the exact title of it, hold on I'll tell you exact title is Can parents
1:19.0	and childless people be friends.
1:22.2	And the answer is yes however right.
1:26.9	Can you be friends with someone who doesn't care about your current life stage and let's
1:32.5	just be blunt because when you don't have kids you don't really care about people's
1:40.3	kids meaning like you don't want the unsolicited photos of their kids of course you're going
1:46.4	to be like oh my god so cute but that's just the truth.
1:50.6	But if I'm wrong please DM me we can have a very healthy debate about it but similarly
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