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Cousin, Sister, Best Friend: The Stories Built Into Our Labels
Just because someone is your sibling, cousin, or best friend, does that mean your relationship has to look a certain way?
For episode 200 (I still can't quite believe I'm saying that!), I'm digging into the titles we give the people in our lives.
Every one of those titles comes with expectations. We assume siblings are close, best friends show up for everything, and relationships with in-laws are complicated. But none of those assumptions tell us much about the actual relationship.
Using my roots of friendship framework, I walk through how these titles become inherited story roots — beliefs…
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