Friends with Exes

How to Be Fine

Kristen and Jolenta

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What are the benefits and drawbacks of staying friends with exes? And what’s the best way to set up this kind of friendship for success? Jolenta and Kristen get tips from Ellie Schnitt and Michaela Okland, hosts of the Late Night Drive podcast. We want to hear from you! Share your own experiences with friendship and loneliness on our private facebook community: facebook.com/groups/kristenandjolenta or write to us at [email protected] And join our Patreon Community to get access to live monthly book clubs with Kristen and Jolenta, ad-free exclusive episodes of By The Book, minisodes of us talking about what we’re reading, the written rules of every self-help book we’ve ever lived by, tips from our experts, advice, and more: patreon.com/listentobythebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.3	Hey there, how to be fine listeners before we start today's episode.
0:34.4	Quick reminder, we relaunched by the Book exclusively on Patreon. So if you miss hearing
0:40.4	us live by the rules of self-help books, recording ourselves while we bug our husbands,
0:46.3	go check it out at patreon.com slash listen to Buy the Book. You can get new monthly episodes there.
0:53.9	But wait, there's more. If you join us at the club level, you'll also be able to join us for live monthly book clubs to discuss whatever book we've most recently lived by.
1:03.4	That's right. It's the return of Buy the Book and live book clubs. Be there or be square or be a book.
1:15.2	To learn more, visit patreon.com slash listen to buy the book.
1:18.1	That's patreon.com slash listen to buy the book.
1:26.4	Hey, Kristen. Yeah, Jolenta. I know that you draw a pretty hard line when it comes to X's.
1:30.7	Yes, I have even mentioned it perhaps in the season of the show.
1:36.6	I am not friends with exes. Exactly. And turns out some of our listeners took issue with that.
1:45.2	It's true. Several have written in to extol the virtues of staying friends with exes and question why I would do things any differently than them. Well, today's guests have been having a very similar conversation on their podcast.
1:52.3	And let me guess they're about to convince me to do things differently. Maybe they will and maybe
1:56.7	they won't, but we're about to find out because I'm Jelenta Greenberg. And I'm Kristen Meinser.
2:02.3	And this is How to Be Fine with Friends.
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