It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier

Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. I just read this book all about friendship and it dives deep into something super fascinating, which is the science and art of conflict in friendship. And the research on this is really clear. See, friendship for women, it's totally different than the experience of friendship that you guys have.

I mean, how women make friends, what we expect of our friends, why so many female friendships have drama and tension, frenemies, you've heard the term, right? Well we're gonna dig into the science of why that's a thing. And you're gonna also understand how they become so deep and intense and yet so fragile. You'll even understand why female friendship is often competitive, toxic, mean.

So if you've ever struggled with female friendship, or if you're listening right now and you're like, wow, there's someone in my life that's currently struggling, whether it's your sister, your daughter, your girlfriend, your wife, your roommate, your friend, how about your friend who's losing her mind right now because she is so worried about picking her bridesmaids and there's so much drama around it? Well I'll tell you, you're not the only one who's having difficulty right now with female friendship. And this conversation, it's going to change the game because you're going to learn so many interesting facts about how women make, break, find, and keep friends, how it's different than how guys do it. And regardless of where you are in friendship, you're going to love this. And I'm saying whether you feel right now like you got no one, you just got kicked out of your friend group.

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