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Listening To: The other day I was listening to a podcast by Bren é Brown and Adam Grant in which they classified platonic relationships into four categories: · Associates – those we have transactional relationships with, such as a mom’s carpool · Allies – those who share our values, be it social or justice, and whom we communicate with occasionally, but don’t hang out with · Pals – those we hang out with to have fun, but don’t get into deep conversations with · Companions – those we have deeper relationships with, have deeper conversations, those who would be there for us in hard times and vice versa. I am paraphrasing their explanation of the categories, but I think it makes so much sense. We tend to lump all our platonic relationships into “ friends ”, and then we are disappointed when our idea of friendship doesn’t mat...
