Office Ours: Friendship Breakups (Part 2: Ghosting, Slow Fades & the Breakup Talk)

I'm not gonna bury the lead here.

There is no one right way to end a friendship, but there is a wrong one.

And that's exactly what we're talking about today on Two Peas on a Pod Office Hours in part two of our series on friendship breakups.

So settle in and get comfortable because we are diving into even more stories, science, and secrets of friendship.

I'm Dr. Miriam, and this is Two Peas on a Pod Office Hours.

Welcome to Two Peas on a Pod.

It is time for part two of our office hour series on friendship breakups.

And honestly, your reception to part one was incredible.

It was actually quite moving.

The posts that we had shared in advance were some of our most shared posts yet.

And You slid into our DMs.

I received so many wonderful and beautiful emails from you about your experiences of friendship breakups, about your questions, about the stories and the secrets that you have about friendships that you have loved and lost.

And part of the reason why that was so incredibly moving and meaningful is not only because of my always learning from you, but it also shows that we are in the process of changing conversations and in creating community.

And that feels incredibly special.

So if you have not yet listened to that first episode, pause right here, right now, as much as I want you to stay with me, go back and listen to it because it really does cover so much incredible and important groundwork.

So you're going to want to tune into that because you'll learn things like why friendship breakups are so painful and why they actually hurt even more than romantic breakups for many of us.

You'll learn the most common reasons why most friendships end and why it's so important to stop playing the blame game.

And also why this experience feels so incredibly isolating, even though it is so very common.

And we also wrap that up with four of the friendship breakup myths that you need to stop believing in order not only to stop overthinking, but to move forward with more clarity.

And that's exactly what we're going to be talking about today.

How we can actually move forward and move the needle when it comes to friendship breakups.

So in today's episode, we're getting into the five questions that you need to ask yourself before deciding if it is really time to end a friendship.

We'll also go over the four ways that our friendships actually end.

So how we can actually end our friendships.

And I, yes, I will share the one strategy I basically never recommend.

We'll talk a little bit about what closure really looks like after a friendship breakup and whether you actually need it.

And of course, we're going to talk a little bit about the coping piece, how you can cope when you are going through a friendship breakup, regardless, by the way, if you are the one who has ended the friendship or if this was something that you never saw coming and never wanted for yourself.

Okay, so let's get started.