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1143: Loneliness is Killing You (And What You Can Do About It) by Cylon George of Spiritual Living For Busy People

Optimal Relationships Daily - Dating, Marriage and Parenting

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The Biggest Barrier to Making Friends Over 30

For me, it took losing my job and going through a marriage crisis before i an to appreciate how dangerously lonely being isolated can make you feel. The biggest barrier to my benefiting from friendship was my perfectionist idea about what friendships should look like. If we couldn't talk three days a week or go out for coffee once a month, i wrote certain people off my list of meaningful friends. But the real value of friendships is the ability to find meaningful connection with another human being. Didn't much matter if this was accomplished with some one i see every day or some one i sees once a year.

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