Family Matters: Navigating the grief that comes with adult friendships
Family Matters with Clement Manyathela · 1 June 2026 · 36m
Speaker 1: Seven in Family Matters today, I want us to talk about something we seldom talk Speaker 1: about, and that's navigating how to deal with grief that comes with adult friendships. And Speaker 1: as I said to you in the first hour, this is actually a conversation that Speaker 1: was inspired by this piece I read in the Times of India titled the Quiet Speaker 1: Grief of Adult Friendship by Preven Gen. I'll put it up on Twitter as well Speaker 1: if you are on that platform and you want to check out the piece. But Speaker 1: if you just google the Quiet Grief of Adult Friendship by Praven Jen, it'll come Speaker 1: up. I read this piece and I thought we have to talk about this on Speaker 1: the show because I I mean, as you read this piece, one thing you realize Speaker 1: more and more is that friendships are actually one of life's most meaningful connections. But Speaker 1: sometimes somewhere there between oh we'll catch up soon, Oh life has been hectic. Adult Speaker 1: friendships have quietly become one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of Speaker 1: modern life. You know, unlike a breakup or when there's a bereavement, the grief that Speaker 1: comes with drifting from a close friend has no formal name. There's no ritual. There's Speaker 1: no clean end point, and most of our friendships don't even end up, you know, Speaker 1: with a fight or a falling out. They simply just fade, wouldn't you agree? No Speaker 1: final conversation, there's no closure, just postponed calls, exhausting jobs, geographic distance, the different lives Speaker 1: that are unfolding at different speeds, until one day…
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