In class two of our course on friendship, you’ll learn how to get out of your comfort zone when it comes to fostering new friendships or resuscitating old ones.
Hey, I'm Christina Quinn.
Welcome back to try this from the Washington Post.
This is the second of three classes in our course about making the most of our friendships.
In our first class, we evaluated our social fitness with the help of doctor Bob Waldinger, director of the Harvard study of adult development.
We took a good look at the state of our friendships and the kinds of support we may or may not be getting or giving and what we can do to make these relationships more fulfilling.
In this second class, we're going to share some steps for how you can do this, and it's going to get uncomfortable with someone who knows a lot about uncomfortable situations.
I'm Carolyn hacks and I'm an advice columnist at the Washington Post.
And now we're friends.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, you didn't seem enthusiastic about that.
Okay.
I was just putting myself out there.
Carolyn.
Carolyn Hacks has been fielding questions from readers about friendships and all kinds of relationships for more than 25 years at the post.
Her trademark style is a special blend of empathy with a tough love, no b's approach, and we're going to rely on some of that to whip us into shape.
Are many of us lazy when it comes to friendships?
I think the short answer is yes, and I think there are a bunch of reasons for that.
I think the fact that we can be home and still be connected and we can be home and still work, we can get all of our media, we can entertain ourselves.