How do you navigate adult friendships with people who are deeply different from you?
Maybe you're in a casual dating, hook up phase while your friend is in the marriage and family stage? Maybe you have opposite political beliefs that you hold strongly? Do you have any experiences "outgrowing" a friendship? What motivates you to hold onto friends that have grown apart from you in some way?
In laws and babies
Hi ABG! Loved your recent episode on to-do lists! I’d like to ask what your advice would be on fostering a positive relationship with your in laws especially when they will be helping take care of your newborn. I have a decent relationship and we are all very polite, but now that I have a newborn, and they have moved into my building to help us out, I feel that I should be grateful for their help with my newborn as I transition back to work. But, surprisingly, I feel possessive over my newborn and don’t want her to forget me as I leave her with my in laws during work hours.
The Holidays
Dear ABG: Holiday Season is coming up! Wishing you a wonderful and festive season :) Had a question about such times, for the 3 of you! Was wondering if you've noticed any sorts of shifts on how the Holidays are planned out comparing your younger years up until now. I'm sure as a kid and as an adult it looks totally different, but has it felt dramatically less and less festive year over year because of your busy life and schedules? I know for me, Thanksgiving, Ramadan, and the 2 Eid's look much different than they did when I was a kid, and honesty just a lot less involved ever year that passes, now I am re-imagining how to make the Holidays more fun again as our parents age and our families have less energy to invest in it, and due to this I want to try and re-imagine how to make the season more jubilant once again! FYI (*Ramadan is the fasting month in the Muslim Lunar Calendar, and Eid is observed twice a year, once immediately after Ramadan and then again right before the season of 'pilgrimage' to Mecca for those who can afford it*) *Also by the way I commented that episode 191 is one of my fav episodes, if I keep commenting on other episodes, will it help increase ABG's revenue and visibility? I will pick and choose which other episodes to comment on :)