Friendaholic: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER

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I really want to say that reading Elizabeth Day feels like listening to a friend, but it's complicated by the fact that I’m an actual friend who makes an appearance in this book on friendship. The discussions talk about the complications involved in being the only black friend to a white person etc and sadly its place in the book feels very much like the tokenism that Day and Sharmaine are trying to fight. What's less fascinating to me is Day's hand wringing about what text message she should send a shitty friend who she doesn't really like. This one really digs deep, is bravely revealing and makes me reflect on my own friendship habits, issues, and culture. I loved the exploration of not just what friendship is and means to people but that it's okay to end friendships, just as it is to end other relationships.

What I loved about this as a recovering Friendaholic myself is Elizabeth’s vulnerability and openness as she looks at why some of her deepest friendships didn’t work out, as well as why he best friendship with Emma has (and thank goodness- she seems amazing). It surveyed over 10,000 people across the world and found that the average age for meeting a best friend was twenty-one. I sometimes could relate so well to her expectations and behaviors as a friend, and also on the other side of things friends expected from her as a friend. Then, when a global pandemic hit in 2020, she was one of many who were forced to reassess what friendship really meant to them - with the crisis came a dawning realisation: her truest friends were not always the ones she had been spending most time with.

It states very clearly on the cover that it is the Confessions Of A Friendship Addict and this is very much a confessional. Este livro aborda vários tipos de amizade sempre baseados na experiência pessoal da autora, o que lhe dá um cunho muito próprio, mas também com muita informação estatística e científica. From ghosting to frenemies, to social media and communication styles, to the impact of seismic life events, Elizabeth leaves no stone untouched. This is something I really wanted Day to address more broadly because she has a whole chapter for her "Best" friend and in that very chapter reveals this study where people can have 6.

Day rightly points out that friendship as a subject has, for far too long, been treated as a Cinderella subject compared to romantic and even family relationships. And also Day brings her lovely writing style of honesty and humour which meant I devoured this in just a few days! Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict tells the story of one woman's journey to understand why she's addicted to friendship. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. My cleverest friend thinks you should cultivate loads of them, do all the emotional stuff on sosh media and throw one party a year to control the spend.I’ve thought lots while reading this about my friends, and about how I act as a friend, and came out of this reading experience feeling I better understood what friendship means in my life, how to be a better friend, and with more conscious gratitude for my friends than I have had in some time. Dealing with narcissistic lovers or recalcitrant teenagers has been deemed proper subject matter for academic psychologists and therapists for decades; how to cope with the potential ending of a friendship has, by comparison, been seen as rather trivial, just one of those things in life that we are supposed to navigate without guidance. This allowed me to rethink certain actions that I wasn't ready to fully explore before, gave me the courage to take action on matters I have been postponing within certain friendships, and to embrace certain truths I wasn't able to accept before. The trouble is, she continually tries to draw universal conclusions from her own (again, very specific) experiences. Her third, Paradise City was named one of the best novels of 2015 in the Observer and the Evening Standard, and was People magazine's Book of the Week.