Why I Don’t Fear Friendship Breakups Anymore & How to Know When to Stay, When to Go
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Ep 132. Why are friendship breakups even more dramatic than romantic ones, and how might they teach us about deeper patterns of behavior we may need to break? In this solo episode, I share my experience of losing close friendships, as well as how I’ve maintained and nurtured long-term, healthy relationships. I'm breaking down the #1 sign I look for in myself and others to know if there is capacity to be a “good friend,” why we often enter dynamics that recreate the one we shared with our mother until the dynamic becomes conscious, and why sometimes it “has to be dramatic” in order for the pattern to be witnessed and broken. Whether you're currently struggling with friendships or looking to deepen your existing relationships, I hope this episode will make you feel a whole lot less messy – and a lot more understood.
HERE'S THE JUICE
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The number 1 sign of a healthy friendship
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How to have both compassion & high standards for the relationships in your life
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How to know if it’s just a mistake, or a repeated pattern of behavior
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How to avoid friendship breakups in the future by looking for red flags in your OWN behavior, not theirs, when you’re around them
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The importance of personal responsibility and how to develop this lens in conflict
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How to grow together in a long term friendship without growing apart
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How to create a relationship with yourself first to truly enjoy connection, rather than “fulfill a need”
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The ways childhood wounds and "mother wounds" shape our friendship patterns
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Why it's okay to be "choosy" about who you let into your inner circle
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Why loneliness can actually be an unexpected medicine
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| 0:00.0 | I've always felt that I can handle terrible things happening to me as long as I can make meaning |
| 0:09.8 | out of it and share it with other people in some sort of helpful way. And I realized that over the |
| 0:16.7 | last five or so years and over the last lifetime. There's been a lot of different things that |
| 0:21.9 | have happened to me that I've finally been able to reflect on in a really meaningful way. I've |
| 0:27.1 | been able to find the silver lining and then the lesson in them. And nothing brings me more joy |
| 0:32.4 | than being able to elucidate and storytell and communicate those learnings to other people because I know you guys |
| 0:42.3 | get it. I know you're going through similar things. I know that this life is getting us all. And if we |
| 0:47.8 | don't have a space to speak candidly about the things that we're trying to process and if we don't |
| 0:53.3 | have a space to reflect and really understand ourselves better, |
| 0:56.6 | we're doing ourselves a disservice. |
| 0:58.5 | So I'm trying out a new format here. |
| 1:00.6 | And I'm sort of trying to bring that goal to life by talking about these various topics |
| 1:07.0 | that I feel like life has given me a crash course in the last few years. |
| 1:11.2 | And I'm just trying to share my greatest lessons and anything of value that I feel like I can |
| 1:19.8 | share with you through these episodes. |
| 1:21.6 | And so today, the format switchup is going to be my producer doing more of a Q&A style |
| 1:26.9 | around friendship breakups, but not just |
| 1:29.3 | friendship breakups, but how to really identify and cultivate more positive friendships, |
| 1:33.7 | especially as you grow and change and evolve and your needs and what you're looking for |
| 1:37.7 | in relationships change. |
| 1:39.1 | And she's kind of just throwing some questions at me and we're seeing what comes out. |
| 1:43.4 | And I was really honored |
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