Frientimacy: How to Deepen Friendships for Lifelong Health and Happiness

it’s one thing to have a hard conversation; it’s quite another to talk about how we did, what we felt, and what we can learn from it.

SUBJECTS: Introduce new topics to the friendship:

Serving from commitment: As our commitment to our friends increases, we often will expand our time together from just having fun to also helping each other. We

Frientimacy is knowing you can call someone for any reason at all, or for no reason at all

Practice #1: Know Yourself to Share Yourself

if people volunteered at least once a week the increase in their well-being was the equivalent of increasing an annual salary from $20,000 to $75,000.

“Sustained, escalating, reciprocal, personalistic self-disclosure.”

what healthy vulnerability is in a friendship—any action where we’re willing to relax our need to protect ourselves from our insecurities.

We can also expand communication by sharing what we need from each other, discussing new subjects, learning how to ask questions and listen well, being curious about each other’s pasts, and sometimes engaging in expansive topics far bigger than our circumstances and updates, like politics, spirituality, dreams, or ideas.