Welcome to another friendship roundup!
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Friendship Articles and More
I love doing these friendship roundups! I see so many friendship-related things, either because I find them myself or people send them to me. I’m going to keep sharing them on my site twice a month.
- This is a good and realistic idea for reaching out to friends– first Sunday of the month, small chunk of time, different friend each time. Alexia Dellner in PureWow
- “I Made a New Friend. And Then We Argued: The conversation was rolling along until it turned to the topic of having children.” Sarah Miller in the NYT
- Men’s groups are embracing an alternative conception of American masculinity: Tara Bahrampour in The Washington Post (Thanks to Rebekah Jacobs for sending this one to me.)
- “I Thought You Were My Friends” by Joel Stein in Substack. Loved this!
- The wonderful poet David Whyte on heartbreak.
- Joanna Goddard of Cup of Jo on why the words “I say this genuinely and with no subtext” was a favorite text she received recently. (Thank you, Lindsay DiLorenzo)
- A new study shows that teens want to see more friendships and less romance in movies and TV. (Thank you, Rebekah Jacobs)
- I laughed so hard listening to this Instagram rant by comedian, Kalen Allen. He explains why when friends say, “What can I bring?” to a dinner he’s hosting, he means it when he says, “Don’t bring anything.”
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Nina Badzin hosts the podcast Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. She's been writing about friendship since 2014, co-leads the writing groups at ModernWell in Minneapolis, and reviews 30+ books a year on her website.
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