EPISODE · Feb 10, 2025 · 27 MIN
The pain of friendship break-ups
from Ladies, We Need To Talk · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Our best friends are our ride-or-die, snort-laughing, crisis solving buttresses. But what happens when a friendship ends?In a romantic break-up, there's a cultural handbook instructing us all to sanctioned crying, bitching and ice-cream eating. Playlists, movies and a canon of literature are ready to validate the catastrophic pain of heartbreak. But with romantic break-ups, there aren't the same support systems in place to help us put back together the pieces.Yumi Stynes speaks to women who've been through the heartache of a friendship break-up to find out how they moved on, and what marks their former besties left behind.This episode contains references to break-ups, friendship, romantic break-ups, heart break, fighting, interpersonal tension, best friends, loss.
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Our best friends are our ride-or-die, snort-laughing, crisis solving buttresses. But what happens when a friendship ends? In a romantic break-up, there's a cultural handbook instructing us all to sanctioned crying, bitching and ice-cream eating. Playlists, movies and a canon of literature are ready to validate the catastrophic pain of heartbreak. But with romantic break-ups, there aren't the same support systems in place to help us put back together the pieces. Yumi Stynes speaks to women who've been through the heartache of a friendship break-up to find out how they moved on, and what marks their former besties left behind. This episode contains references to break-ups, friendship, romantic break-ups, heart break, fighting, interpersonal tension, best friends, loss.
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