S2, Ep 6 Dial Emma: Communication in Friendship - how can we give ourselves permission to exist as our true selves in friendship?
Friendship Therapy
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This week, we hear from a listener who is struggling to navigate an imbalance in communication styles in a friendship, especially when it comes to making plans and responding to messages within a perceived timeframe that, currently, neither of them are sticking to.
How can these friends update their friendship contract into the present so that both parties can show up wholly as themselves? Can people who have very different communication styles be in a successful friendship where their individual needs are met?
In this episode, Emma comes back to attachment styles to try and understand what the dissonance could be between these friends, and why they have two very different reactions to a lack of ‘regular’ communication, whatever that looks like for them. Are they simply singing from different hymn sheets, or is it about giving themselves permission individually to behave in the ways that work for them within the friendship?
What advice would you give this listener?
If you’ve got a friendship dilemma, drop us a voicenote on Instagram @friendshiptherapypod!
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| 0:27.8 | Welcome to this episode of Dial Emma from Friendship Therapy, the part of the show where you get to |
| 0:36.2 | well, Dial Emma with your dilemma. Yeah, you see what I did though. You share your friendship concerns and I share my reflections as a therapist to give you the tips and tools you need to build better bones. |
| 0:48.0 | Okay, enough from me. Over to you. You. Hey Emma, how do you deal with a friend who you like meeting up with them and you've been friends |
| 1:01.6 | for a long time, but when you ask to meet up with them they |
| 1:06.6 | don't get back to you for a week or two weeks or even a month sometimes but when they ask to meet up and let's say I don't get back to them within a day they |
| 1:19.2 | start messaging me going why are you ignoring me and I have said before this is an equal |
| 1:25.8 | behavior and nothing's changed how do I move on from this. |
| 1:31.6 | Thank you so much for sharing your dilemma. I can hear how frustrating that must be. |
| 1:39.4 | That idea that there isn't this equality in this friendship that do as I say not as I do |
| 1:46.3 | that there's some sense of kind of injustice and unfairness and a kind of a lack of |
| 1:50.9 | parity that means it's one rule for one and one rule for another and |
| 1:55.0 | well that doesn't feel like a friendly relationship that feels like a situation in |
| 2:00.3 | which one person's needs are somehow more important than the others. |
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