Episode 2

REAL TALK with BFFs: Fostering GOOD Longtime Friendships

Here are 4 ways to keep good friendships:

1. Be Intentional

Or in the words of Corinne, “You have to be a friend to have a friend.”

2. Master Love Languages

People receive love in different ways!

The love languages include: acts of service, physical touch, gifts, words of affirmation and quality time.

Find out how your friends receive love best and research different ways to show that as a friend! Be intentional to love your friends not only how you show love but how they receive it. 

3. Encourage and Uplift

Jokes can be all fine and good but a friend who knows how to build you up is ESSENTIAL. the Bible talks about how the tongue has the power of life and death – how important is it that the people we surround ourselves with use their tongues wisely. And vice versa, it’s so important to uplift and encourage our friends. 

4. Be REAL – Call Each Other Out

While encouragement can be sweet, we don’t want to be friends or have friends that are only yesmen. We see in the book of Esther that the people the king surrounds himself with are only Yemen and it gets him into a ton of trouble and bad choices.

It’s important to surround yourself with people who will call you out and be real with you, and it’s important to be loving enough to do that with your friends as well. 

5. Keep Boundaries

Even the closest of friendships have boundaries. Be sure to keep them. Friend, you are not entitled to everything in your friends’ life. Corinne and I realize have had seasons where hard times are happening where we share every detail and other times when we keep it private and just ask the other for prayer. Even with the closest of friends, respecting boundaries is important. 

XO, Meg