Why I Don’t Believe In Ending Friendships

We Met At Acme

Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.2 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today’s solo episode is all about FRIENDSHIP. Insecurity in friendships, not being close with one person in your group, strengthening friendships, feeling like you’re losing friends as you get older, how often to hang with your friends VS. your partner, friend jealousy, how much effort a friendship should take, and what I’ve learned in my friendships overall.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:06.5	Hey guys, welcome back to We Met It Acme. I was going to wait to do another full solo episode,
0:12.6	but it's technically the next month because it's May 1st, so happy May. And this will be the solo
0:20.6	for the month. Unless, I don't know, maybe we'll do another bonus episode this month. But
0:26.5	today's solo is something that is a very sore and tender subject for me, which is friendship.
0:36.0	I have always kind of struggled with friendships and friends. And I'm sure it's something that you
0:43.4	don't see from the outside. I'm sure you think that like everything's perfect and you know,
0:49.1	I have such great friends. And I do, by the way, I have amazing, amazing friends. But that doesn't
0:55.3	mean that I haven't struggled with friendship in my life. And you know, we could take it back to
1:01.2	and I discussed this briefly on a recent episode. I was, I went to an all girls school my whole life
1:08.3	until college. And I grew up with a lot of pettiness and a lot of bullying. And I did do the bullying
1:19.1	myself too. I was not innocent. But I, there was a lot of pettiness and like, there was this
1:25.5	popular group in, in middle school. And I was in it. But then, you know, I wasn't in it. And like,
1:34.2	my friends like decided they wanted to dump me quote unquote, because I, they like accuse me of
1:41.1	like stealing clothes, which I never did. And it was just like a really dark time for me. In like,
1:50.2	six grade, I know that sounds so juvenile, because you're like, she wasn't a human yet. But it really
1:55.0	affected me to the point where I actually wrote my college essay on like the pettiness that I dealt
2:01.6	with in school. I wonder if I could find that essay and like share it with you. I'll look, but
2:06.8	it's definitely something that's affected me my whole life. And I have an older sister. And she
2:13.2	kind of avoided the pettiness. She was more in like the sports world of the girl schools. And so
2:21.6	she, she nearly avoided it. But she was always telling me like, oh, they're just jealous of you.
2:27.4	And you know, of course an older sister is going to say that. But I was really hurt and like affected
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