During her How to be an Adult segment on RTÉ 2FM, Louise McSharry asked author and writer, Edel Coffey, to guide listeners through the process of making a new friend. Noting that the theme of ...

Making friends as an adult can feel strangely hard, to the point that it’s nearly impossible. With busy schedules and fewer ...

I know a lot of the problem is on me, but how do you make friends or at least another responsible adult when you are over 60?

Dear Eric: I retired a couple of years ago. Like many people, I’ve realized that most of my friends and acquaintances were ...

‘It can be tricky to meet new friends as grown-ups, because we move in different settings once we leave educational spaces such as school and university,’ says clinical psychologist Michaela Thomas.

Making friends as a kid was easy. You shared your snacks at school or played on the same team, and boom you were besties. As an adult? Not so simple. Work, family, endless to-do lists… somewhere along ...

"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 ...

‘Online dating is much more normal now. Everyone has Tinder and doesn’t bat an eyelid. But it is really, really hard to make friends as an adult,” Elva Carri, founder of GirlCrew, says. Frustrated ...

THE typical adult has eight friends - but only count four to be in their close circle. A study of 2,000 people found connections are likely to peak in our early twenties – with 21 being the most ...