1. How your attachment style determines how you make – or don’t make – friends and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.2. How Dr. Franco’s work helped Glennon make healthy adult friendships over the past year.3. Why we’re lonelier than ever – and how that loneliness can make us sick.4. Why platonic friendships are beneficial to the health of our romantic partnerships. 5. Learning to “trust the spark” when you meet a potential friend – and concrete steps to foster new friendship.  About Dr. Franco:Dr. Marisa G Franco is psychologist, international speaker, and New York Times bestselling author known for digesting and communicating science in ways tha change their lives. She works as a professor at The University of Maryland and authored the New York Times bestseller Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends.TW: <a href="https://twitter.com/DrMarisaGFranco">@DrMarisaGFranco</a>IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/drmarisagfranco/">@drmarisagfranco</a> To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: <a href="https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy">https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

We Can Do Hard Things

179. How to Fix Our Loneliness with Dr. Marisa G. Franco

Life is freaking hard. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing; caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace.On We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon Doyle, author of UNTAMED; her wife Abby Wambach; and her sister Amanda Doyle do the only thing they’ve found that has ever made life easier: Drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard things including sex, gender, parenting, blended fami...