Friendships aren’t always easy and fun. Like all meaningful relationships, they require work. They require nurturing and a willingness to grow. And in today’s world, explains author and journalist Anna Goldfarb, many friendships are being pushed to the brink and painfully ending.
In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Anna about her new book, Modern Friendship, an empowering guide to creating what she calls “wholehearted friendships.”
Throughout the conversation, Tami and Anna explore the growing ambiguity of 21st-century friendships and the false promise of social media. They delve into the core elements of a successful friendship strategy, distinguishing between memorial friendships and active friendships, and introducing the concepts of Jacuzzi friends, bathtub friends, and pool friends.
Anna shares her expertise on the three main causes of friendship breakups and the three essential requirements for lasting connections: consistency, positivity, and vulnerability. She emphasizes the importance of choosing people with whom you can share meaning and outlines the key characteristics of wholehearted friendship.
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Anna Goldfarb is a friendship journalist who has reported for outlets including the New York Times, the Atlantic, Time magazine, Vice, The Cut, Vox, and the Washington Post. Called “the New York Times friendship correspondent” by Tim Herrera, the editor of the New York Times Smarter Living section, she’s written hundreds of articles that explore the nuances of friendships, relationships, and pop psychology. She lives in Philadelphia.
For more, visit annagoldfarb.com
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