In this episode we explore a hot topic: friendship in your mid-to-late 20s. We cover making them, keeping them, losing them, and how they might change and grow with time. We share our 13 year friendship origin story, consider how hard it is to move from “friendship dating” to “friendship official”, and discuss friendship-related thoughts and feelings shared by the Educated Messes community. 

We contemplate whether we’re happy with the number of friends we have, if we think it’s easy or hard to make new friends, and reflect on how our friendship has changed over the past decade. We consider how important communication and boundaries are in friendship and Kyla drops a hot tip on how you can better express your feelings. We learn why it’s important to our happiness that we talk to strangers and decide we should normalize sliding into peoples’ dm’s to be friends because at the end of the day, life’s short — tell people you think they’re cute.

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Non Violent Communication - Find the Book Here

The Feelings Wheel - Find it Here

Daring Greatly - Brené Brown

Tight Club

The Happiness Lab - Find it Here

Esther Perel

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“Talking to strangers can boost your happiness level” - CBC Article Here

“Want To Feel Happier Today? Try Talking To A Stranger” - NPR Article Here