Platonic: Navigating Friendships With Dr. Marisa G Franco - Ep 181
Dear Shandy
Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Today's Hot Topic is one that has been a loooong time coming. We're joined by bestselling author, professor, and psychologist Dr. Marisa G Franco. Having written "Platonic: How The Science Of Attachment Can Help You Make—And Keep—Friends", Marisa is particularly well equipped to help us tackle the complicated world of platonic friendships. If you struggle when it comes to friendships, or you'd like more friends but don't know how to get started, or feel like you're doing all the work in your friendships, OR perhaps you'd like to end a toxic friendship.... let's just say this conversation is for you.
More Marisa:
Book: Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and—Keep Friends
Instagram: DrMarisaGFranco
Website: www.DrMarisaGFranco.com (take a quiz to assess your strengths and weaknesses as a friend!)
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome To Dr. Marisa G Franco!
1:25 - What Inspired Her To Write A Book On Platonic Friendship
3:15 - Biggest Thing She Learned About Herself In Writing “Platonic”
7:25 - The Most Surprising Fact About Platonic Relationships
9:48 - Attachment Styles
12:35 - How To Make New Friends
24:55 - Is She An Introvert Or Extrovert?
26:01 - How To Maintain Long Distance Friendships
27:24 - Does Our Easy Access Culture Affect Our Friendships?
31:18 - What If It Feels Like You’re Doing All The Work?
35:02 - Vice Versa
36:49 - When You’re The Connector But End Up Feeling Left Out
40:45 - Can You Be Friends With Someone You’re Attracted To?
45:22 - The Proper Way To End A Toxic Friendship
49:29 - Is It Ever OK To Power Fade A Friendship?
52:23 - How To Maintain Friendships When Your Lives Are Heading In Different Directions
55:25 - Script For How To Turn An Acquaintance Into A Friend
56:06 - How To Deal With A Friend Who Constantly Copies You
58:38 - Shandy Debrief
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, for me, it's a green flag when we can have conflict and develop deeper |
| 0:03.8 | and could see. Yeah. And now that I know how to do it, it's like, I know it's |
| 0:08.0 | that my fault if this goes poorly. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome back to Dear Shandee listeners. Hello, Andy. Hello. How are you today? |
| 0:20.9 | Doing okay. How are you? Very good. I'm very good because I'm very excited |
| 0:25.2 | about the topic today and the guest in question. Because I've been wanting to tackle |
| 0:29.6 | the topic of friendships, platonic friendships for quite some time. You do talk about this a lot. |
| 0:35.8 | I really do talk about this a lot. But before we introduce our decorated guest, I will first |
| 0:40.7 | read off some of her accolades. So our guest today is a New York Times best-selling author, |
| 0:45.9 | professor and psychologist. Her words have been featured in psychology today. Scientific |
| 0:50.4 | American, the New York Times, time, business insider and Forbes among many others. And she has |
| 0:56.0 | studied friendship extensively, doing research on friendship all over the world. And she's the author |
| 1:01.9 | of Platonic. How the science of attachment can help you make and keep friends. We are thrilled |
| 1:07.0 | to be joined by Dr. Marissa G. Franco. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for |
| 1:12.1 | having me. That was a great introduction. Oh, thank you. Charlene's good at that. I'm a little |
| 1:17.0 | jet lag. So I'm a little stumbling today. But thank you for saying that. So before we get going |
| 1:22.4 | talking about the ins and outs of Platonic friendships, a topic that I spend a lot of my time thinking |
| 1:28.0 | about. I first wanted to ask you what inspired you to write the book and then I have a two-part |
| 1:35.1 | question after this question. Yeah. So I would say I became really passionate about friendship. |
| 1:41.2 | After I went through some breakups and I started this wellness group with my friends to kind of |
| 1:46.3 | heal from that. And so we met up every week to practice wellness. We cooked. We did yoga. We |
| 1:52.1 | meditated. And it was really life-changing for me to just be around people I love, to love me |
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