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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Making friends as an adult? Weirdly hard. Like, harder than deciding if you should get bangs. Once you’re ...

When Shannon Watts, the founder of gun violence prevention group Moms Demand Action, listened to a podcast that stated everyone should have five friends they could call in an emergency, she realized ...

Many things get better as we age—we get better at advocating for ourselves, we get more comfortable with who we are, we learn what matters to us and let the stuff that doesn't fall away. One thing ...

Making new friends as an adult doesn't have to be impossible. Moving to new places in adulthood can be isolating, especially if you are having these new experiences by yourself. You don't have your ...

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 ...

I've lived my 20s as a part-time nomad, flip-flopping between New York City and Washington, D.C., wandering around Haiti for two summers, and spending six months in Trinidad and Tobago. I settled in ...

Over the weekend The New York Times addressed a matter of contemporary lifestyle that pretty much anyone can relate to: Friendship. Specifically, how hard is it to make friends as an adult? Is it, as ...