149. Is It Harder to Make Friends as an Adult? (Replay) | No Stupid Questions

[@AwooPatrol]

Took the words right out of my mouth about being too productive during short windows to be friendly. I'm constantly crossing paths with coworkers and even a greeting or how is your day can be hard to squeak out in those passing moments where we'repreoccupied, much less anything deeper. I worry sometimes that that'll become a standard that gets boring. I also worry that I'm too independent to seek help and feel like it limits my career advancement and ability to form deeper connections.

[@SovereignMax]

my high school friends were very serious friends. We believed that we would die for each other. Now at 41 I only make associates and acquaintances and most of who I consider or who I would consider my friends are from high school

[@louisaw8600]

I think men and women have very different definitions of "close friends". The key components of close friendship...intimacy, trust, longevity...are all defined differently by men and women. The men in my life point to people as close friends, but by my definition of that relationship, they really aren't. it's all a matter of one's own personal world view, I suppose.

[@aridgeman]

Great topic as they almost all are. Too bad about the grating self-oriented voice of the Duck. "Yah"