Dear Eric: I retired a couple of years ago. Like many people, I’ve realized that most of my friends and acquaintances were work-related. My family doesn’t live close, and I’ve always been a loner, so ...

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

Many adults are lonely because they have no friends. Childhood friends may live far away, or those relationships might have faded over time and your social circle keeps shrinking until, perhaps, it ...

"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 ...

This is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. We’ll help you make friends, leave them—and even sleep with them. In the fall of 2020, I bought a used Kia Spectra, packed my life into a moving van, ...

How do you make and keep friends in middle age? My husband and I moved to our current town from a large city just over a decade ago, when we were turning 30. We made some friends early on, but not ...

Filing your taxes might be easier as you get older, but making new friends can feel just as hard at 60 as it was in middle school. Of course, finding them can sometimes be the hardest part, and that ...

Dear Eric: I am one of many lonely adults struggling to make close friends. It’s never come easy for me, and it’s compounded by the fact that I’m an introvert who works from home part time with three ...

A few weeks ago, I asked the BuzzFeed Community for your best advice on making friends as an adult. Your responses were just so wonderful. I loved reading them. They gave me that excited feeling like ...