How to have better friendships as a single woman: why your friendships feel disappointing & how to fix them

How to have better friendships as a single woman: why your friendships feel disappointing & how to fix them

When you're single (especially after a breakup) your friendships become everything. Your support system, your social life, your chosen family. So why do they so often fall short of what you actually need?


Anna Goldfarb, friendship expert and New York Times journalist, and queer friendship researcher Tom Roach reveal why friendships get harder as we get older, and what single women can actually do about it.


Tom also shares what straight women can learn from LGBTQIA+ communities about building truly honest, intimate friendships.


Bree brings her own experience: as a solo female traveller living abroad alone in Mumbai, she had to build an entire social world from scratch, and learned more about friendship in six months than in the previous decade.


In this episode you'll learn:

• Why friendships feel less satisfying as you get older and the specific challenges single women face

• What happens to your friendships when you're the only one still single

• How loneliness after a breakup or in single life goes deeper than just missing people

• What the LGBTQIA+ community does differently when it comes to friendship depth and honesty

• How to stop settling for surface-level friendships that leave you feeling more alone

• How to have the conversations that actually deepen a friendship


Bree is currently in Mumbai, India.


Anna Goldfarb's book 'Modern Friendship'


Tom Roach's book 'Friendship As a Way of Life'


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