Infatuation Rules
Infatuation Rules
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Essential friends These essential friends are your confidantes and the people with whom you share your deepest values. And perhaps most crucially, they're the ones who loyally stick around, no matter what.
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Read More »T he particular circumstance that sparked a book idea for longtime TV and radio producer turned friendship expert he particular circumstance that sparked a book idea for longtime TV and radio producer turned friendship expert Glenda D. Shaw is a relatable one: About a decade ago, she was at her own birthday party and realized that she wasn’t having all that much fun. “I looked around and thought, these people don’t really support me, and I’m actually somewhat lonely,” Shaw says. The epiphany shook her, as she’d always been someone with a large group of friends. “What I realized was that, by sheer proximity to people, I’d wandered into many friendships—but they weren’t conscious relationships,” she says. To change that, she's since turned to psychological research to develop a process for sorting and actively engaging with friends, called the four levels of friendship: essential friends, collaborators, associates, and mentors and mentees. In Shaw's forthcoming book—Better You, Better Friends: A Whole New Approach to Friendship (out on September 15)—she outlines these different levels of friendship, which she says can help people both understand and classify their relationships. “Considering the four levels of friendship can help you develop a healthy way to relate to each of your friends and learn to expend energy that you know will be reciprocated.” —Glenda D. Shaw, friendship expert “Considering the four levels of friendship can help you develop a healthy way to relate to each of your friends and learn to expend energy that you know will be reciprocated,” she says. This allows you to set clear expectations and boundaries around friendships, too, so that each one serves a fulfilling—and not indifferent, or even disappointing—role in your life.
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Read More »We often bury conflict in the interest of maintaining a friendship, but that can bubble up as resentment later on, says Shaw. “Instead, bring the conflict into the conscious mind where you can address it and come to a resolution.” Any friend with whom you can do that easily is more likely to qualify as an essential friend.
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Read More »The mentor-mentee relationship is an asymmetrical friendship dynamic, wherein there’s an uneven level of power and control. “With your symmetrical relationships—like your collaborators, associates, and essential friends—you have an equal amount of choice in deciding how and when you'll hang out,” says Shaw. “With mentors and mentees, typically the mentors are the people who’ve progressed further in life and who have more say as to the depth of the relationship.” In most cases, mentors are life or career coaches, which might mean they take the form of a manager, or someone else within or outside of your workplace whom you look up to, regardless of their title. “In these relationships, there are very clear boundaries,” says Shaw. Consider how you might not share intimate details about your family or your romantic relationships with your boss, for example. But even so, both parties stand to benefit and learn from these relationships when they function with clear expectations about the time you plan to devote to them, and what you hope to achieve from them, too. Being the “best” version of a friend to the people in your life at each level relies on self-awareness about how much focus you want and are able to give to each, says Shaw. We all have a finite amount of energy and time, so it’s all the more important to direct it where you’ll find enrichment and fulfillment in return. Oh hi! You look like someone who loves free workouts, discounts for cult-fave wellness brands, and exclusive Well+Good content. Sign up for Well+, our online community of wellness insiders, and unlock your rewards instantly. Enter Email Address
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