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Why adult friendships feel different from college friendships

I keep trying to recreate the easy friendships I had in college but adult life feels too busy and complicated for that kind of spontaneous hanging out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

We mistake the conditions of our youth—proximity, time, lack of competing obligations—for the essence of friendship itself.

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“Where Are You with Making friends as an adult — the difficulty?”

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