Friendship Series - Honoring the Long Game in Friendships with Deanna DiCroce

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Motherhood, Cameronrogers, Freckledfoodie, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Parenting

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I sit down with one of my best friends, Deanna DiCroce, to talk about all things adult friendships and how she and I have stayed close through the years. We compare communication styles, how we have navigated staying in touch despite being in different places in our lives, and why it’s useful to think of friendships as seesaws. She also shares how open and honest communication is most helpful when trying to support a friend in postpartum, why pressure and expectations can sink a friendship, and why letting friendships go is also okay. Finally, we discuss the importance of checking our egos and needs for external validation, and why working through conflict benefits all relationships.

Key Takeaway / Points:

How we have stayed close over the past twelve years despite being in very different places in our lives
On knowing your friend’s communication styles and navigating around those to keep in touch
On thinking of friendships as seesaws with ebbs and flows
On being open about how friends can support you and vice versa, especially during postpartum
On not putting such pressure and high expectations on friendships
On letting friendships drift apart and not needing dramatic endings
On not letting small moments define a friendship
On checking your ego and need for external validation
Why working through conflict is healthy in all relationships

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:04.1	Okay.
0:05.1	Hi, fam.
0:06.1	We're doing a special little episode.
0:07.9	We're not in the studio.
0:09.6	So if the audio is worse, that's why we're in my parents' beach house sitting in the
0:14.7	pitch black because our power is out on July 4th weekend.
0:18.7	But I have this idea.
0:20.2	I've been getting a lot of DMs in general like over the years, but really a lot recently
0:25.2	asking about adult friendships, how to be there for friends, how to navigate friendships
0:30.3	through different stages of life, and especially when I say like one of my friends had a kid.
0:37.0	This is what I'm sending them.
0:38.2	I get a lot of messages from you guys who are incredible people who are like, I don't
0:42.6	have kids, but I want to be there for my friend.
0:45.0	What do I do or what's the best way to support someone?
0:48.3	And then also there are a lot of take-offs that's like, oh, you find out who your real friends
0:52.5	are when you have a kid.
0:53.8	And I did a video once that was like, you have to accept that no one is going to love
0:58.2	your kid as much as you are other than your partner.
1:01.5	And especially not your friends.
1:03.0	So you can't expect them to be obsessed with your kid like you are.
1:06.3	That's just never going to happen.
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