Your Stories: Friend Jealousy, Friend Burnout, and Making Friends as an Adult

How to Be Fine

Kristen and Jolenta

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jolenta and Kristen read some of the many stories you’ve shared about the topics we’ve recently covered on the show - including being jealous of friends, dealing with friend burnout, and making friends post college. They also announce By The Book: Authors Tell All - a newly available series that will land right in this feed starting next week. Reminder: There's lots more of us on Patreon - including our biweekly podcast series Dean & Kristen Look Back, where we do just that: Look back at our time on By The Book, episode by episode, sharing updates and behind the scenes secrets along the way. Patreon is also the home of our weekly advice column, our Patreon-only season of By The Book, nearly 200 minisodes, the written rules of every self-help book we’ve lived by, and more: ⁠patreon.com/listentobythebook⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	Ready to launch your business?
0:31.7	Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.
0:34.9	Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business
0:38.9	with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand, marketing tools that get your
0:43.7	products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time, from startups to
0:48.5	scaleups, online, in person and on the go. Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you.
0:54.5	Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.
0:59.9	Hey, Jolenta.
1:01.7	Yes, Kristen.
1:03.2	Do you have your letter opener ready?
1:05.8	You know I do.
1:07.5	Oh, good. I am glad because I think you know what time it is. Of course I do. It's time to throw
1:14.1	letter openers. I mean, no, it's time for another How to Be Fine Mailbag episode. Let's get to it. That's only mine.
1:30.3	That's right. It's time for another How to Be Fine Minisode.
1:43.3	When we read through some of the great
1:45.1	stories that you, our beloved listeners, have shared with us about the topics we have recently
1:50.1	covered on the show. And we heard from a lot of you recently. Let's start with a topic that I
1:58.3	find super interesting. Friend burnout.
2:02.7	Yes, let's do it.
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