Pearl and Jordyn are back this week to give their take on maintaining friendships. Your hosts start this week’s episodes by celebrating books. This episode is high energy, due to your hosts’ passion for friendship and due to Jordyn consuming obscene amounts of caffeine (one cup). Led by a side track on Jordyn and Pearl’s favorite swear words, they discuss the importance of balance within a friendship.

Pearl and Jordyn share personal experiences on maintaining a relationship over time, life changes, and distance. They discuss the importance of compromise in relationships and the line between compromising actions versus compromising a sense of self within relationships. Your hosts discuss expectations, boundaries, and respect in friendships. This episode, listeners are really taking a deep dive into perspective taking in the container of a friendship. Such as, love languages, communication styles, and changing seasons in friendships. Jordyn shares how she took steps towards giving others the benefit of the doubt while managing personal insecurities.

This episode is the third and final episode in our series on friendship, so make sure you check out episodes “15 - When is it Time to End a Friendship?” and “16 - When Should I Call My Friend Out?” for more. 

Some other questions your hosts explore this week:

1. Are you providing space for your friends to be their full versions of self? Is that space being provided to you?
2. Have you had relationships end due to space or time changes that created space for a new relationship to form?
3. How do you take on problems or issues in relationships?
4. How do you support a healthy interracial friendship?