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title: Friendship Building
description: This topic covers the social psychology and practical steps involved in forming and maintaining platonic relationships. Learners will understand how to meet new people, develop mutual trust, and sustain long-term friendships.
category: personal-development
subcategory: life-skills
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/friendship-building
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# Friendship Building

This topic covers the social psychology and practical steps involved in forming and maintaining platonic relationships. Learners will understand how to meet new people, develop mutual trust, and sustain long-term friendships.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 1 Courses • 4 Websites

## Websites

### 1. r/socialskills Wiki

Community-curated resources for building friendships, top Reddit source.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.reddit.com/r/socialskills/wiki/index

### 2. mindtools.com

Mind Tools offers practical business and management resources—articles, templates, checklists, and self-assessments—covering business communication, leadership, teamwork, meetings, and professional writing.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://mindtools.com

**Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals

### 3. psychologytoday.com

Psychology Today is a comprehensive mental health site offering evidence-based articles on relationships, marriage, and dating, written by psychology professionals. It also hosts expert blogs and a directory of therapists for finding support.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://psychologytoday.com

**Tags:** websites, personal-development, family-relationship

### 4. skillsyouneed.com

SkillsYouNeed is a practical resource site for soft skills and personal development. It offers easy-to-follow articles, tips, and how-to guides on topics like active listening, communication, presentation skills, study techniques, and time management.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://skillsyouneed.com

**Tags:** websites, personal-development, communication

## Books

### 1. The Friendship Formula

**Author:** Caroline Millington

A practical guide by journalist Caroline Millington on making, keeping and ending friendships. Readers learn how to recognise toxic dynamics, handle ghosting and betrayal, manage friendships through life changes such as parenthood, and invest deliberately in supportive, reciprocal relationships.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1789545862?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** friendship, relationships, toxic-friendships, social-skills

### 2. Big Friendship

**Author:** Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman

Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, hosts of Call Your Girlfriend, trace their own decade-long friendship to show what sustaining a close adult friendship requires: handling distance, conflict, unequal life changes and illness, and deliberately repairing the bond when it strains.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0349013020?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** friendship, adult-friendship, relationships, conflict-repair

## Courses

### 1. Interpersonal Communication

Wharton professor Maurice Schweitzer's four-week course on cooperation, trust, deception, and persuasion in professional settings. Learners finish able to build trusting relationships, detect deception, construct apologies, and choose media that fit a given message.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-communication-skills

**Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, communication-studies

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