In this episode of Cubs Out Loud, the guys are joined again by Edward Angelini-Cooke to continue our Landscape of Relationships series. For this episode, the guys discuss the topic of unfriending. Whether it be friends, family or “framily”, there are situations which may require a need to remove people from your lives. Listen in as the cubs share some advice on when, how and who should be unfriended.

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Landscape of Relationships: Unfriending

• Top 8
• Close Friends
• Feed
• Limited Feed
• Unfollow 
• Block

Parents – MyCounselor article – Healthy Relationships with Adult Children 

• This comes from a Christian counseling website  
• Look at this like a checklist to see if you have them 
• Setting expectations of how you are to be treated is HUGE.  
• Check out the boundaries podcast 
• Think of boundaries like the rules of D&D

Friends – Psychology Today: 13 Essential Traits of Good Friends 

This is a great article on using yourself as a reference point to assess your friendships with others. (If we want honesty from others we have to make sure we are honest.)

• Brene Brown’s BRAVING model
• Ladders.com article – Stick with the Winners, Avoid the Losers

• Advice my Mom gave me growing up that I didn’t always take, “stick with the winners.”  I have adapted it to, “Stay close to the ones who know where they are headed.” I don’t like the winners/losers dichotomy, but it has the same idea. 
• Like D&D, be mindful about who you party with. 

Friends and Family – Personal Excellence article – Unsupportive People 

• Don’t go to the hardware store for bread. 
• Find out where the hardware store is.
• If I’m out of life, unless I have someone on my party who has regeneration….I need to get it from someone else.

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