5 Types of Friendship Breakups & How to Get Through Them

Friend breakups hit different. They’re messy, heartbreaking, and
rarely come with closure. In today’s episode, we’re breaking down
five of the most common types of friendship breakups, why they
happen, and how to survive them without losing your mind (or your
faith in humanity). If you’ve ever mourned a friendship like it
was a death, this one’s for you.





EPISODE OUTLINE:





00:00 Intro 


03:21 1. The Mutual Drift


04:18 Aristotle’s utility, pleasure and virtue friendships


06:46 Dunbar’s number: how many friendships can we maintain at
once?


08:25 Carl Jung & making friends while wearing a mask


09:40 Mollenhorst’s social pruning study


10:06 Getting through a mutual drift


11:51 Break - with a surprise! 


15:23 2. The One-Sided Slow Fade


17:00 How to get through it on the receiving end 


19:09 What if you’re the one who’s fading away from a
friend? 


21:22 3. The Formal Breakup 


23:38 How to break up with a friend ethically


24:47 Getting through a friend breaking up with you 


25:34 4. The Blow Up 


26:42 Sartre & conflict as a mirror of the self  


27:44 Getting through a friendship blowing up 


28:21 Hegel & conflict as an engine for growth


29:26 5. The Sudden Ghost 


30:23 Getting through being ghosted by a friend


32:06 Lightning round recap 


32:39 The peak-end rule 


34:02 Journaling prompts for processing a friendship
breakup 


34:33 Poem: To Strangers I Used to Know





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