This week Skye and Amanda circle back on the topic of friendship and read an Atlantic article ‘The Six Forces That Fuel Friendship’ by Julie Beck, author of The Friendship Files, a series of 100 interviews with friends of all ages, lengths and dynamics. With the series coming to an end Beck gives her readers six recurring themes that she sees help form friendships and maintain them through the years: accumulation, attention, intention, ritual, imagination, and grace. 

Listen in as Skye talks about what it has been like for her in these recent months of reconnecting with old friends and Amanda shares more on her new found desire to make new adult friends. 

Books mentioned in this week’s episode are linked to our Bookshop.org shop:
Friending: Creating Meaningful, Lasting Adult Friendships

Articles mentioned in this week’s episode:
The Atlantic: The Six Forces That Fuel Friendship 
The Atlantic: How Friendships Change in Adulthood

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I Love That For You on Showtime TV

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