S1, Ep 11 Friendship Therapy: Friends as Soulmates - friendships that don’t fit into a box
Friendship Therapy
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In the final full episode of season one (don't worry, there's still Friday's bitesize episode to come!), Emma chats to Helen, 29, and Victoria, 32, about the value of friendships compared to romantic relationships, finding your life partner within a platonic relationship, and why some partnerships simply can't be categorised - but that doesn't mean that they are any less valid or important.
Helen and Victoria, both working as teachers, met at a musical theatre society when they were in their late twenties and early thirties - a crucial time during which many of their peers were meeting 'the one' and building a life with a romantic partner. Meanwhile, Helen and Victoria found in each other a platonic soulmate, a life partner with whom they could share all the domesticities of daily life, and connect with deeply on an emotional level too. By society's standards, Helen and Victoria's relationship is very much outside of the norm, and they simply can't and won't fit neatly into a box that is recognisable, or even acceptable, to the people around them.
In this episode, Helen and Victoria share their experience of finding a soulmate in a friend, the radical acceptance and permission to be themselves that they bring to each other's lives, and their frustration at the way society has failed to recognise the significance and value of platonic relationships. Emma also reflects on a deeply meaningful platonic relationship in her own life, and identifies a potential blind spot that we could all overcome.
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| 0:31.1 | Welcome to Friendship Therapy, the podcast in which we |
| 0:34.0 | therapies some of the most influential relationships |
| 0:37.0 | we'll ever have in life. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Emmerie Terrell, a psychotherapist and author, |
| 0:42.0 | and I'm here to help you understand the issues we all face in friendships. |
| 0:45.6 | Whether it's the end of a friendship, |
| 0:47.3 | the impact of major life events on our friendship groups, |
| 0:50.2 | or the challenges of making new friends in later life. |
| 0:53.0 | Each week I'll be joined by a guest who comes to better understand their friendships |
| 0:57.5 | and leaves with a better understanding of themselves. |
| 1:00.0 | Join the conversation and understand yourself and your friendships better too. |
| 1:07.6 | Welcome back to this week's episode of Friendship Therapy and I'm so delighted to have not one but two guests with me this week who are friends |
| 1:17.0 | So that's a good start and their names are Helen and Victoria and we've got Helen and Victoria on today and we're going to have a really |
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