What is up daddy gang? It is your founding father Alex Cooper with call her daddy.

Dr Miriam Kermire welcome back to call her daddy.

Thanks for having me back. This is great.

To remind everyone you are a clinical psychologist and friendship expert and the last time we spoke we had so much to

discuss and my listeners were like can you please please please give us more on

friendship this is seriously a problematic area in my life. We need help. So we are just going to do another episode and we're going to keep going on it.

Let's do it. So friendships come in various forms. From your experience, what are the different types of

friendships that people may have in their life? Yeah, well this is kind of how we

ended off our conversation last episode, right? We were talking a little bit about this idea of friendship types or friendship tears and

there's actually different ways to look at this.

And so I'm curious to know your experience here too.

We can look at different types of friendship

in terms of levels of closeness, right? So we can say I have acquaintances, I have true friends, I have

close friends, I have a best friend, and that's definitely something that I think resonates with a lot of us in terms of our experience and when we look at our social networks, right?

And the research in this area even typically uses that type of a classification system when we're talking about it.

But there's another way to look at it as well,

which are the different types of people

that I have in my life, right?

And that's where we start to see ideas like childhood friends, right?

Come into the picture of lifelong friends versus newer friends, more activity centered

friends, right?

People that I do things with, but I might not open up

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