K&J Love Their Platonic Partners

How to Be Fine

Kristen and Jolenta

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Jolenta and Kristen try on Rhaina Cohen’s tips for nurturing their other significant others. 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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0:28.6	and emails back to you and playing some self-help book related games. It's a blast. We'll see you there
0:35.2	at patreon.com slash listen to buy the book. Hey, Kristen. Yeah, Jol blast. We'll see you there at patreon.com slash listen to Buy the Book.
0:39.0	Hey, Kristen. Yeah, Jolenta. Would you say that we're platonic partners?
0:44.4	I like to think we're wives, work wives. So yeah, absolutely. I think so. Plus, our finances are
0:51.2	intertwined. Our creative projects are intertwined. I mean, we literally hang out with
0:55.5	each other's families. Yeah, that is true. That is true. You were hanging out with my mom without me
1:00.6	the other day. I sure was, yes. And I like care about you as a person and the work we do together.
1:08.5	Oh, of course. Of course. It's also that. It's not just that we're workwives. We like each other as humans too. Right, right, right. But did you realize that we aren't each other's only platonic partners?
1:19.4	Excuse me? What? Are you cheating on me? No, I'm not cheating. We're Polly, Kristen.
1:26.1	Oh, yes. It is the 2020s when Pauley is where it's at, right?
1:30.2	Right, right.
1:31.1	We have all different kinds of platonic partnerships that we rely on day to day.
1:36.2	Indeed, we do.
1:37.9	And should we perhaps explore some of those other relationships?
1:41.6	I think we should because I'm Jelanta Greenberg.
1:44.9	And I'm Kristen Meinser.
1:46.3	And this is How to Be Fine with Friends, we dive into a different aspect of friendship or loneliness.
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