Hello and welcome to the slow home podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced

world. I'm Brooke McCallory. My name is Ben McCallery and welcome to episode 247. We are

continuing our relationships theme for the month and we're going to talk about existing friendships or ways that you can maintain existing

friendships when you are sometimes operating in a different level with your friends.

Yeah, I think it's one of the biggest causes of disconnection, I think, for a lot of adults,

this lack of friendship and connection.

I mean, maybe we're in relationships, maybe like we have a romantic partner, maybe we have

close-knit families, but there is something that friendships bring to your life that you really do feel the loss of over time.

And I think that as you grow up, as you become an adult, as you pass these milestones, it's normal and natural for relationships, friendships, to drop off.

And as you change and your friends change, that's going to happen.

But I know a lot of people fear that, first of all.

And then when they realize it's happened, they don't know how to deepen the ones that they have.

Yeah, exactly.

I think it aligns with like life milestones, like when you get married,

sometimes single friends drop off.

Yep.

When you have kids, sometimes friendship groups get rearranged for those that have kids and those, you know, there's so many influences.

But I think slow living is another pretty

big influence on friendships, don't you think?

Yeah, I do. And we're definitely going to talk about how to create and maintain

relationships with people who have shared values next week. That's more about sort of how to

make new friendships. But also, if you still have friendships in your life now, how do you

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