How to Break Up with Your Friends, Erin Falconer
How to Break Up with Your Friends, Erin Falconer
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How to Break Up with Your Friends
Finding Meaning, Connection, and Boundaries in Modern Friendships

Author: Erin Falconer

Narrator: Erin Falconer

Unabridged: 5 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/18/2022


Synopsis

Create space for meaningful connections and set healthy boundaries with this much-needed guide to modern-day friendship.

Friends hold an especially valuable role for women—few relationships have such power to fuel us and inspire our joy. Yet even though we pride ourselves on our large networks, we tend to be afraid of rocking the boat and asking for what we really need. As a result, we end up accepting mediocrity in ourselves and our friendships far too often.

But does it really have to be this way?

In How to Break Up with Your Friends, celebrated life mentor Erin Falconer provides a refreshing guide to modern-day friendships—along with deeper principles, assessments, and practices for nurturing them.

“This book is about so much more than going through your contact list with a machete,” writes Erin. “Yes, you’ll learn how to detox yourself from friendships that no longer nourish you, but you’ll also explore the astounding importance of modern friendships and how to be a truly great friend yourself.”

With clear-eyed guidance and a good dose of humor, Erin will help you:

• Take stock of those currently in your life so you can see exactly how you and your friends are serving each other
• Understand how your earliest friendships impact your current relationships
• Explore the importance of having healthy friendships—including the many ways we’re influenced by our friend groups
• Know the main types of friendships we form, the roles they play in our lives, and how to deepen the most essential ones
• Recognize the signs you’re in a toxic friendship and stop fearing constructive confrontation
• Rupture and repair—be ready when a valuable friendship hits the rocks
• Learn how to make new friends as an adult
• Have the courageous conversations needed when it’s time to “break up” with others

With a wealth of revelations and tools—including the Six Pillars of Friendship, the Friendship Diagnosis, and sample scripts to help facilitate the hard conversations—How to Break Up with Your Friends is the relationship book you didn’t know you needed.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joanne on March 12, 2022

2.5 stars. Enticing concept for a book. Can’t say that I’ve ever come across a book on the subject of friend weeding before. I heartily agree that throughout a lifetime, you can have lots of friend-pockets of varying love, engagement, and duration. So, yep, thinking about that was interesting, and I......more

Goodreads review by Reading_ on January 17, 2022

Happy publication day! Ten short and precise chapters dealing with what friendship means and what can be the best form of friendship for yourself. This is a practical guidebook which gives you a realistic picture about friendships and the various forms of it which affect your life. You will come to kno......more

Goodreads review by Keith on May 01, 2022

There are some useful ideas in here, though I found the limited research cited in support of the ideas not super compelling. Also struggling with the publisher being “Sounds True” which seems like the perfect company to publish pop books without much research backing, relying mostly on anecdotes. No......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on February 16, 2022

I have no idea how anybody can have that much time to make as many friends as this author seems to have (even though she backtracks constantly claiming to be an antisocial hermit introvert). The chapter pushing the necessity to have like 5 specific types of girlfriends also ends up making me feel la......more

Goodreads review by Anna on February 21, 2022

All about how to be a friend, how to have friends, and when to let them go. Loved this one.......more