Why is it so hard to make friends as an adult? Maybe we’re asking the wrong question.

For much of human history, friendship grew inside the ordinary rhythms of life: neighborhoods, workplaces, places of worship, community organizations, front porches, local cafés, schools, teams, and other “third places.” We didn’t necessarily make friends. We kept encountering the same people until strangers became familiar—and familiarity became connection. Modern life has quietly changed that architecture.

In this episode of Rebranding Mental Health, Iman and Kurt explore the “friendship recession,” the decline of community spaces and social capital, why adult friendship requires so much more effort than it once did, and what loneliness looks like when we stop treating it solely as an individual problem.

Most importantly, they explore how we begin rebuilding because perhaps we haven’t forgotten how to make friends. Maybe we’ve stopped designing lives where friendship can happen.

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