It was not just romantic relationships that involve intimacy, the being seen, the vulnerability,

the, you know, truly being known and understood and having that safety. I think that's part of the

reason that friendships often feel so much more fulfilling than romantic relationships.

Hello and welcome back to Should I Delete That? This week, M and I went to therapy. We spoke to

relationship and couples therapist Natasha Silverman about how to actually nurture your friendships,

especially as an adult, when everyone's busy, tired and juggling a hundred things.

We actually put our own friendship under the microscope, which was interesting.

And Natasha gave us so many practical tips from keeping friendships strong when you have kids

to dealing with milestone anxiety and how small gestures can make your friends feel really loved.

Friendships shape our lives just as much as romantic relationships,

but we don't always give them the same care or attention.

So this felt like a really important episode, even if it was essentially live therapy for me and M.

So if you feel like you want to be a better friend, this is the episode for you.

Here's Natasha.

Hi, Natasha.

Welcome to the podcast.

Thank you for having. Very happy to have you here.

I'm not I'm a bit scared because we're talking about friendship and potentially delving

into our own friendship.

We've wanted to do an episode on friendship for a really long time because

we talk so much about romantic relationships and how important it is to nurture them and,

you know, to water them so that they grow and evolve and, you know, there's a lot of emphasis

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