![]() ![]() But the research is clear: Close friendships are necessary for optimal health and well-being. When you’re overworked and overwhelmed, the motivation to have dinner with a friend versus turning on Netflix and eating pizza with your spouse can be hard to summon. ![]() And if, for whatever reason, you don’t stay connected to your childhood or college friends, you can end up in your 30s (or 40s, or 50s) knowing a lot of people, but being close to very few of them. In groups of adults, you often hear some form of this complaint: It’s hard to make friends as an adult. A childhood friend and I had a falling-out, never to be repaired. I have friends who like to hike, and friends who like to chat over coffee and friends who live far away but whom I talk to a few times a year.īut close friends? “Friends” level friends? The “I can tell you anything and count on you always” kind of friends? Not so much. Over the years, I’ve made lots of friends: childhood friends, work friends, college friends, writer friends. Like so many people, I grew up watching the TV show “Friends,” dreaming of the day I would be living a glamorous city life surrounded by a group of close friends. ![]()
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