Welcome to this episode of Dial Emma from Friendship Therapy, the part of the show where you get to

well, Dial Emma with your Dile Emma. 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 bonds. Okay, enough from me. Over to you. Hi Emma, I hope that the noise in the background isn't too annoying.

I'm in an airport and I thought it would be good to record it from an airport not to brag but because it's relevant to my question which is about how you keep friends when maybe you've had to move around a lot for work. So I've managed to keep maybe like two friends from school,

which I'm really proud of, but I sort of see them quite sporadically.

But I tend to find that I do this thing

where I'll make really intense friends and then sort of drop them after about a year and maybe even ghost them.

And I don't really know what that's about, but it feels a bit strange because I find them, I've not really got much of a wide group of friends.

I've just got these two friends that live far away back home.

And yeah, I'm not quite sure what that's about or how it can make things better for myself.

But I'm kind of scared of becoming isolated as I get older.

So any tips would be great.

Thanks so much for making this podcast.

I'm really enjoying it so far.

So, thanks a lot.

Thank you for this brilliant dilemma. It's one of those dilemmas where I hear the request for tips

and I do completely the opposite. No tips here. This is a

tip-free zone because I'm too interested in what your reasons are for why you're doing what you're doing and the brilliant

thing is you know you're doing it you know that you have a fear of isolation, at least a kind of speculative fear of isolation, as in when you get older.

So it is a fear. It's just at the moment being allowed to hover sort of just outside that line of

sight so that we don't have to act on it yet except now you've dialed into

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