SOCIAL HEALTH: Why am I always the one reaching Out?

Why am I always the one reaching out?”

That was hands down, by far the biggest complaint we heard from you when we asked about friendship. The texts that go unanswered. The friends who say, “We need to get together!” but never actually make a plan. The feeling that if you stopped reaching out, the friendship might just… disappear.

So in Episode 2 of our series on social health, Liz Bohannon and I are tackling reciprocity and asking a complicated question: Do friendships actually need to be 50/50?

What should we expect from our friends? When does being the one who always initiates become exhausting? And how do you know whether you're investing in a friendship that's actually giving something back?

Liz challenges the way we think about keeping score in friendship and offers a completely different framework for thinking about who reaches out, who shows up and what we're really asking of one another.

If you've ever thought, “Fine. I'm done reaching out. Let's see if they ever call me…”then this episode is for you. (I’m guilty of this!) 

Because friendship isn't always as simple as who texted first.

Let’s Talk About It. 

Listen in to learn more :

0:00:00 Initiation Is the Price of Admission

0:04:20 Social Health Is Your Job, Not Theirs

0:09:05 From Consumer to Co‑Creator of Connection