How to Make Friends as an Adult

I have been thinking about this topic for years. For whatever reason at times in our life we end up needing to make some new friends.

Either we moved to a new place, they moved (literally and figurately). We split up from our partner or we awakened and realized that the people we are hanging out with aren’t great for us. The reason really doesn’t matter.

The other day on my way to work I realized that I was making it more complicated than it has to be.

There are 2 steps to making friends:

• New People
• Shared Activities

So, you need to meet some new people. Go join something, A volunteer group, meetup group, or some type of religious organization. It helps if this group is active and has stuff going on at least weekly.

Now if you are introverted, you will have to go find these people, they will not magically find you.

You may need to try out several until you find one that has interesting people, and you feel like you belong.

You need to bond with people outside of the group. Otherwise, if one of you leave the group a lot of times the relationship doesn’t last.