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Mar 30, 2023
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Why Making new friends Try Harder once we Age, and how to Exercise Really

Why Making new friends Try Harder once we Age, and how to Exercise Really

It happens to all of us as we move through life: Our circle has slowly started migrating to another city, we have gone through one or two big life transitions ourselves, or data conducted by Cigna revealed that 61 percent of Americans, or three in five adults, reported feeling lonely – a 7-percent increase from 2018. The data doesn’t lie: We are hungry for deep, meaningful connections.

But what makes adult friendships – and cultivating meaningful adult friendships – increasingly more difficult to establish than they were at a younger age? There are a slew of factors: competing responsibilities, work (and in the United States, overwork), big moves and life transitions, the time that’s required to maintain healthy romantic partnerships and raise a family, and then there’s the lack of trust from those who have been scathed by friends before. As author of We want to Meet up and Connected Of Afar and connection coach Kat Vellos puts it in an email interview, “Our ability to develop intimacy in a world dominated by impatience and short attention spans [is shrinking]. Continue reading »

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