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171 - How to Make Friends and Keep Them with Best-Selling Author Eric Barker

The Verywell Mind Podcast

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The Importance of Vulnerability in Your Friendships

If we're not willing to open up, how can other people get to know you? If people don't know about your struggles, they can't help. We need to make an effort to be more apart, to be needed than to need others. And that's not just true for parenting. It's true for all our relationships. That we do need to feel needed and we do needs to feel depend upon. Those are the bonds that have been lost in a very individualistic world.

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