Couples therapy for friendships? I’d like to suggest there are good reasons why this offering hasn’t been available before you 2 thought it was a great idea. This story seemed to me an example of the entitled ‘all about me’-hyper-focused social media demographic who think they’ve invented something new or have an enlightened perspective when they haven’t lived long enough or been through enough ‘stuff’ to know when they have something meaningful to share with others. Purchased this book on Glennon Doyle’s recommendation and once again, it appears I’ve been duped by a successful author promoting her friends. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity.

And that the most important part of a big friendship is making the decision to invest in one another again and again.Īn inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society’s most underappreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved. Through interviews with friends and experts, they have come to understand that their struggles are not unique.

They have weathered life-threatening health scares, getting fired from their dream jobs, and one unfortunate Thanksgiving dinner eaten in a car in a parking lot in Rancho Cucamonga. And they should know: The two have had moments of charmed bliss and deep frustration, of profound connection and gut-wrenching alienation. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendship - its joys and its pitfalls.Īminatou and Ann define big friendship as a strong, significant bond that transcends life phases, geographical locations, and emotional shifts. As the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, they’ve become known for frank and intimate conversations. Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming big friendship in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another’s lives. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul. A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain.

Aminatou sow big friendship