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RE: Let's Talk Tuesdays : Maintaining Friendships

in #letstalktuesday • 7 years ago

Such a thoughtful and vulnerable story, thanks for sharing that with us all.

I’ve been struggling with this over the last few months. I used to be highly active on FB with my local community. When I went offline, I lost touch with everyone, as everyone has become so dependent on using that platform as a communication tool.

What was worse was that I had ceased working as a therapist, and so I felt a lost my identity. (That’s what I’ve been posting of late, my reflections on all of that).

The big lesson for me was that if I needed to keep in contact then I needed to make the effort to do so the old fashioned way: phone or text.

Even though I’ve gotten in touch with everyone to let them know to not depend on using FB to communicate, it’s become a challenging pattern to break for most people.

Hanging out with friends is very high on my personal Values.

My change in work life has also thrown things into chaos as I now work at different times to everyone else, so I can’t really hang out much, and they all work when I’m not.

Still trying to work out how to balance all this. Looking forward to reading more of your journey with this.
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    Thanks so much for sharing what you've been going through as well with trying to maintain friendships outside of the fb world. I've noticed the same, that it's rough for people other than my mom to keep in touch with me outside of social media. I kind of take it for what it is because that's out of my control.

    Sounds like you're going through a lot of changes and that there's a transition period for you right now. It's rough for sure and I hope everything balances out for you. I'm definitely excited to learn about dialectal behavioral therapy and find some balance within. Thanks so much for showing interest in my new installment! Looking forward to doing another Let's Talk Tuesday. I'll touch base on this topic and introduce a new one, most likely on what I've learned during Monday's DBT session. We shall see!

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