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Making Friends as Adults

Building meaningful friendships as an adult can feel overwhelming 🤔, but you're not alone 🌟. The aim of this blog is to catalogue practical tips 📚, science-backed strategies 🧠, and real-world insights 🌍 to help you make and keep strong connections 🤗. Whether you're new to your city 🏙️, seeking deeper relationships 💬, or just wondering how adults make friends today, you can explore the latest findings 🔍, read personal stories, get actionable steps and find needed encouragement to grow your social life.

Beyond Bumble BFF: What you might be missing about adult friendships

If you’ve ever Googled “how to make friends as an adult,” you’ve probably seen a flood of listicles like “10 Ways to Supercharge Your Social Life” or “Easy Tips for Making New Friends After 30.” Mostly they’re pushing variations on the same surface-level advice

7 reasons why making friends is hard (and why it’s getting harder)

On a given weekend do you find yourself either 1.) alone or 2.) with people you don’t feel a connection to? Does finding new friends in your city feel like the needle in the haystack thing? Does maintaining your existing friendships feel like swimming upstream at Niagara Falls? It’s not just you feeling this strain.

Apps That Help You Make Friends as an Adult (and Why You’ll Probably Be Disappointed) 🧑🤝🧑

Struggling to make friends as an adult seems to be a national pastime right now, 📉 and in response, a few tech-driven solutions have popped up to fill the gap. These apps aim to help you meet new people, expand your social circle, and connect based on shared interests and proximity — but are they really working?

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