Jenn & Trin will be calling in at 11:00am PST on Friday, November 18th.
Jenn and Trin work at Cards Against Humanity and host Friendshipping, a weekly podcast where they answer tricky questions about friendship and etiquette surrounding relationships. They recently raised 314% of their initial goal on a Kickstarter campaign for Friendship Postcards, which are estimated to release in September 2017.
Have a question for Jenn & Trin? Leave it in the comments below.
Can you talk a little about your internet coven of bitches who protect each other, and its amazing new logo?
I have a somewhat serious friendship question, but hopefully it’ll be ok. Do you have any suggestions on separating my depression from trying to be happy for my friends? Whenever I see my friends on social media talking about their fun times with other friends or posting pictures of them together, I struggle to just be happy they’re happy and usually instead feel sad that I am so emotionally (and physically to a point) distant from them.
I’m queer and I am *terrified* of Trump (and more importantly, Pence). How do I talk to friends who honestly think we should give Trump a chance and that he might be “good for our country”? Or should I even engage in that conversation? Is there a graceful way to say “I hella disagree with you, let’s drop it”?
I am moving soon, how do you make new friends? I’ve basically hung out with the same people my whole life and I don’t know anyone in the area.
If you were both bus drivers, what would you keep on your dashboard?
Do you have any advice about how to help friends deal with mental health issues?
What are your favorite Cards Against Humanity card combinations?
How would you suggest to best stay in touch with friends who are in wildly different life phases than you? I am married (yet childless), and I have friends with anywhere from 1-5 kids, which makes scheduling or even staying in touch really difficult!
Dear Doctors Jenn & Trin, despite being at a great uni with lots of mates who I have fun and share varied interests with, I struggle with feeling lonely a lot of the time and feeling like I’m missing out on the kind of very intimate friendships my peers have. Do you think this is purely a mental bias and if so do you have any recommendations to help convince my subconscious what I ‘logically’ already know?
Secondary, more lighthearted question: what is your opinion on Desert Bus slashfiction?
What’s the best way to cope with friendships that are drifting apart and that you can tell are coming to an end, especially when it’s mainly instigated by only one side?
I have a friend that I’ve known sense I was 5 yrs old, currently 34, and I love him very much but over the past 10 years we’ve drifted apart. We’ve tried to include each other in our lives but scheduling and entropy has kept us from seeing each other for over a year now. How do I reach out to him to him to keep him in my life? I’m afraid that our relationship might just be over and I just don’t know what to do.
What is something silly that your pup and kitties have done lately?
I have a lot of insecurities and anxieties, which makes it difficult to make friends. I am now in college and have yet to acquire any dating experience whatsoever, and I am terrified that if I approach someone I like (especially if they are a friend), something is going to go horribly wrong and I will end up at best alienating and at worst hurting that person. Positing this question to both the guests and DB crew: should I try to get myself straightened out before getting close to someone?
Which (if you can show/tell us) is your favourite postcard from the kickstarter?
I had a large circle of friends years ago, but I was not a good friend to them and so I lost touch with them except by Facebook. I live in a new state, I’m in my late 30s and I’m having a tough time making very close friends like the ones I used to have. I’ve been working on doing better at performing Emotional Labor, and a recent illness made me realize that I don’t think I have any close, local friends. How do I start to open up again to go from being acquaintances to being friends in my new state?
I am generally a person who is full of emense joy and happiness and oneven of my friends is the exact opposite constantly being cynical. This normally isn’t a problem but occasionally we try to impose our view point on eachother and it makes everyone uncomfortable, what should we do?
I often feel like I’m annoying the friends I have in certain circles. For example, I have been asked to not post as much/often in the group chats we have together. I don’t have many friends outside of them, however, and I get excited to share my thoughts and life experiences. I don’t know if I’m trying to be closer friends than they want, if I need to somehow find more friends I can dump info on, or what I should do there. Can you help?
Do you have any advice for someone who is trying to still be friends with and ex-boy/girlfriend?
Just wanted to say thanks so much for all that you two do. Your podcast has helped me identify a number of blind spots I had/have. Your podcast also just makes my week so much darn better.
What’s your advice on meeting new people when you’re mobility-challenged? Meeting people means going places, but when going places means you already need help from other people. How do you get out of that Catch 22?
Often, I have things schedule with my friends. However, something from them comes up and I am relieved instead of upset that I didn’t get to do stuff with them. After this, I feel guilty for being relieved at not doing things with them. I’m not consciously doing this, but it seems to happen every time, even though I enjoy time with my friends. Is this normal? Is there something I should be doing to prevent these feelings?
I don’t have any really close friends – and looking back, I never have. It doesn’t bother me, but sometimes I look at people with those close connections and wonder if I’m missing out on something. If I feel more-or-less okay without that sort of thing, should I push myself outward? Are ALL people inherently social?
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