“Making and maintaining friendships as an adult, let alone a BFF, can be super challenging,” said Layne Baker, a marriage and ...

Making friends as a young adult can be hard. Many 20- or 30-somethings have swapped a structured school environment for work, which may be remote or not involve interacting with people their age, and ...

Gone are the days of starting friendships by walking up to a group playing basketball in the quadrangle and asking them to ‘pass it to me’. As adults, lads are already in cliques, and established ...

Asking Eric: Daughter keeps getting kicked out Asking Eric: Friend is shell of himself after relationship Asking Eric: Trust will take time to rebuild Ex-etiquette: Son spotted riding around town ...

After working from home all day, your takeout order arrives and you start binge-watching your favorite show alone. Sounds ideal, right? Except doing this routinely could shorten your life. And that’s ...

It’s official — making friends gets harder the older you are, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 Americans examined ...

If you feel like friendships are harder to make or maintain than ever before, you’re right. The pandemic did us no favors when it came to building and maintaining close friendships. While we may have ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on July 28, 2025. Click here for that audio. A Gallup Poll last year found that one in five American adults reports feeling lonely every single day. Here & ...

Click here for the original audio. A 2024 Gallup Poll found that 1 in 5 American adults report feeling lonely every single day. Here & Now's Asma Khalid speaks with Danielle Bayard Jackson, relational ...