Should I try and save a friendship that’s ending because my family left the Church?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In this episode, I talk with Beth and answer the question, “Should I try and save a friendship that’s ending because my family left the Church?” Beth’s family has a group of friends that get together several times a year for fun trips. After the news came out that Beth’s family is leaving the Church, it’s felt like these friends want nothing to do with them.I encourage Beth to go toward the awkward. It’s likely that these friends are making up stories about what leaving the Church means for B...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.6	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.1	I'm thrilled to welcome Beth to the podcast today. Welcome, Beth.
0:49.7	Hi. Thanks for having me.
0:51.7	I'm so glad you're here. What is your question for me today?
0:56.2	My question today is we have some, I have some close friends that are pulling away from us in certain ways.
1:06.2	And they're friends that we've had for a really long time.
1:09.4	And we've spent a lot of time together,
1:11.6	traveling and recreating and stirring up some feelings that I've just never had to deal with.
1:19.6	And we feel put down, shunned a lot of different feelings coming up.
1:28.8	Yeah.
1:29.2	And we're just not sure if we fight back, you know, how much do we stand up for ourselves?
1:36.0	Do we try and save the friendships?
1:39.5	Or do we just let us each have our own feelings going forward? Yeah. All the things. I can, I can sense the
1:49.1	sadness. Yeah. There's some good people. Yeah. Yeah. And when you say we, who are you referring to?
1:57.1	When you say we're going, we've lost some friends friends we're going through a hard time me and my
2:02.6	husband my spouse okay so these were a couple friends yes and and all the kids you know everyone's friends
2:11.5	they live in a different town and about four times a year we do do camping trips and, you know, different kinds of trips together.
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