S3, Ep 8 Dial Emma: Platonic Crushes - how emotional self-sufficiency supports healthier connections
Friendship Therapy
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This week, our Dial Emma voicenote comes from a listener who is navigating the feeling of having a platonic crush, or 'squish', on someone who they really want to experience friendship with.
In this episode, Emma digs deeper into how platonic crushes often stem from a deep desire for emotional connection and validation, and explores why cultivating emotional self sufficiency and self acceptance can help us to maintain healthier friendships with others. Emma also encourages our listener to acknowledge that not every friend will be able to provide the emotional closeness that we're looking for, but they are still a friend - and these friendships can exist harmoniously together.
If you have a dilemma for Emma, drop us a voicenote on Instagram @friendshiptherapypod.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Sainsbury's, I'm Host and Friendsmas. What's a must have? That'll be a big hit. |
| 0:05.6 | Cheese will always please. This week at Sainsbys with nectar, save a third on taste the difference cheeses, including Camembert, Stilton and Swiss Mature Reserve Greer. |
| 0:15.9 | Ah, I'd be crackers not to. We have those too. Looking to serve up party pleasers and save big. Ask Sainsbury's. |
| 0:23.7 | Sainsbury's good food for all of us. Nectra required. Subject to availability, selected stores, |
| 0:28.0 | excludes locals. Ends 31st of December. Welcome to this episode of Dial Emma from Friendship Therapy, |
| 0:34.7 | the part of the show where you get to, well, dial Emma with your |
| 0:38.3 | dilemma. Yeah, you see what I did there. You share your friendship concerns and I share my reflections |
| 0:43.8 | as a therapist to give you the tips and tools you need to build better bonds. Okay, enough from me. |
| 0:50.7 | Over to you. Hi, Emma. I love the podcast. I've got a dilemma for you. I'm not sure if you know, |
| 1:00.6 | the name for a platonic crush is a squish, and I feel like I get squishes a lot. There's sort of two ways, |
| 1:07.0 | either when I meet somebody who I want to be best friends with and they just want to be friends, |
| 1:12.0 | or it's like they have people that sort of run in different circles to me. |
| 1:15.9 | And on paper, I shouldn't be friends with them. |
| 1:18.2 | I think I get excited by the challenge of having something extra. |
| 1:22.8 | It's usually a positive feeling. |
| 1:24.2 | I have a lot of love to give. |
| 1:25.7 | And one of the ways I give it is by appreciating |
| 1:28.7 | people who are excellent at their job. That's usually super enjoyable for me. |
| 1:35.7 | Thank you so much for introducing me to a whole new world. A squish. Okay, so a platonic |
| 1:42.7 | crush. That's fascinating. I kind of love this idea of platonic crushes. |
| 1:48.0 | They make sense to me, right? This is a kind of, I suppose, like a strong emotional attachment, |
| 1:53.5 | like the kind of crush we might have on a character in a TV show or in a book. It's something about |
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