Ep. 328 – When Your Girl’s Friend Drama Spills into the Family

Continuing a week of episodes on Godly friendship, hosts Melissa Bearden and Rachael Culpepper put the friend drama under the spotlight. When boy crazy seasons affect girls’ friendships to then folding core relational skills that play into a marriage setting, both hosts share personal issues they’ve parented through personally.  

 

Leaning on the wisdom of healthy boundaries communicated in grace, Melissa and Rachael share a core tenet of maintaining interactions in the midst of oversharing, obsessive tendencies toward boys, and balancing time spent with each friend to avoid jealousy.  

 

The Raising Godly Girls Minute shows gracious wisdom that comes through Biblical loyalty in friendship. When today’s girls are used to swiping left to immediately make something (or someone) undesirable go away, it’s important that girls don’t adopt the same pattern toward one another in real life. Melissa shares her daughter’s experience walking through an instance when this was tested in a specific friendship. Discovering that her friend had changed—and preferred her phone over the person in front of her—was revealing to Melissa’s daughter, helping her to cultivate important patterns moving forward.  

 

Rachael shares three Biblical approaches to help girls hop off the friend drama roller coaster and adopt a more consistent pattern in their friendships. From getting to know a friend’s parents to allowing trusted mentor and pastoral voices speak into conflict, each approach cuts down an addiction to division and embraces a more mature, Godly friendship.  

 

 

Three Things to Consider: 

 

• Knowing the Friend’s Family Helps to Offer Context when head-to-head conflict seems to be the norm.   

• Grace Comes through the Gentle Truth of Scripture to turn the tide on unhealthy friendship patterns.  

• When Conflict Boils Over, Lean on Your Village—You don’t have to go this parenting journey alone.  

 

 

Scriptures Shared in this Episode: 

 

• Proverbs 17:17 

• Ephesians 4:32 

• 1 Corinthians 13 

 

Visit raisinggodlygirls.com for more encouragement and faith-based parenting tools.   

 

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