Chris Duffy isn't going to sugarcoat it: Making friends as an adult is hard. If you’ve ever tried to figure out exactly how to ask a potential platonic connection for their number—or word that first ...

Making friends as an adult can be tough. You’re older now, busier, and maybe even more set in your ways. But friendships are vital for a happy and healthy life. They offer support, joy, and new ...

Knowing how to form and maintain new friendships can sometimes be difficult, particularly in adulthood. Finding common interests or joining social organizations are some ways to connect with others. A ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. If you’re like most people, you want more friends—and you may ...

Priya, an engineer in California, was on a deadline. Under pressure, she emailed a younger friend working on the same project to ask for some data that the project needed to get done on time. She and ...

Making friends as an adult can be challenging thanks to competing responsibilities, fewer built-in social structures and less practice. Below, experts share helpful tips for how to improve your social ...

Every friendship begins with some sign that two people are interested in becoming friends. To make a new friend, we can communicate that we like a certain person, we want to spend time with them, and ...

THE FRIENDS TO lovers trope is a feel-good story everyone from hopeless romantics to love skeptics can get behind (you can't tell us your heart strings weren't at least a little tugged at the end of ...

It’s tough to plunge into a new congregation. Here’s how to get your head above water. Once, a man decided to attend religious services while visiting a new town. He went to the meeting location and ...