Making Friends

No. You aren’t the only one. If you’ve found yourself typing ‘am I the only one who has no close friends as an adult’ into a search engine, the answer is far from yes. You are in the company of tens of millions of people who are sitting with exactly the same thing, performing exactly […]

Are you secretly lonely despite having a social life? Loneliness despite a full calendar There is a widespread and disorienting experience that is become more and more widespread, and that is feeing lonely despite having a social life. It’s the opposite of having nobody to call, or sitting alone on weekends. It’s something underneath that,

Yes, and it’s happening to more people than you think.   If you’ve found yourself asking if it’s normal to have no friends in your 30s, then the short answer is yes. The longer answer is that it is not only normal, but one of the most defining experiences of the current adult social landscape.

  You’re not the only one doing this in secret Naturally, you want more friends, you want them quite badly, and you’re worried that the wanting is visible.   That fear of how to make friends without people knowing how desperate you are is one of the most common and least talked about parts of