Posts tagged how to make a friend
Making Friends Is Supposed to Take Work: A Conversation With Dr. Marisa G. Franco
Making Friends Is Supposed to Take Work: A Conversation With Dr. Marisa G. Franco

If you have ever wondered why making friends as an adult somehow requires vastly more effort than it seemed to when you were eight, friendship researcher Dr. Marisa G. Franco has some reassuring news: you are not suddenly terrible at friendship; the circumstances changed.

I got to talk with Marisa about why friendships rarely happen “organically” in adulthood, why we consistently underestimate how much other people like us, what social anxiety does to our attempts to connect, why rejection might deserve a rebrand, and why learning to feel bad might actually make us better friends.

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4 signs you should be friends with someone
4 signs you should be friends with someone

We’ve already talked about how to know it’s time for a friend break-up, but how do you know that someone would make a good friend? Here are four “green flags” that suggest you might want to keep someone in your life.

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