5 Questions to Evaluate Your Friendships at the End of the School Year
There are five questions I want us to be asking ourselves to get a sense of where our friendships stand. Even if you’re not a student or a parent, thinking in school months is a helpful measure of time. Maybe you got some grades. Maybe your kids got grades. Maybe at work you got an evaluation. It’s also worth your time to evaluate your friendships and give yourself an honest assessment. And if you DO have kids of any age all the way through college, this is a good short episode to send them.
I’m saying “us” because I’m here assessing right along with you as I’m trying to be the friend I want to be and have friendships in my life that feel fulfilling.
The 5 questions also make good journal prompts. Each question deserves more time than I can give them on the podcast. I’ve personally found as a writing teacher (and a lifelong writing student) that putting pen to paper or fingers to the keyboard brings unexpected answers to the surface. The questions are listed below so that you don’t have to write them down while listening.
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5 questions to evaluate your current friendships:
- Did you get caught up in keeping score?
- Did you overly focus on what your friends should be doing to strengthen your friendship rather than on what you should be doing?
- Do you owe anyone an apology?
- Is there someone out there who might appreciate your friendship?
- Did you accept that not every friend can fill every friendship need in your life?
Links I mentioned I’d share in the show notes:
The Friend Who Never Initiates Contact
Managing a Lopsided Friendship and Assuming the Best
Stop Focusing on the Popular Group
Reconnecting with an Ex-Friend
Difficult Teen Friendships and Levels of Parent Involvement:
Telling Friends They’ve Let You Down
Become Your Own Social Director: Don’t Wait for Invitations
I’m Just Not That Into This Friendship
Every Friendship Starts (or deepens) With an Act of Bravery
Why Big Friend Groups Often Fail and Helping Kids Manage Conflict with Close Friends
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