How To Make Friends as an Adult
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Grace and Nikki both need more friends. Grace is an ICU nurse whose best friends have moved away. Nikki is an electrical engineer who worked remotely for the last year and is now moving to a new city. Making friends as an adult is hard, but not impossible. You just have to do things differently than when you were in 6th grade. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Elizabeth Newcamp, co-host of Slate's Mom and Dad are Fighting and the author of Dutch, Dutch, Goose, a parenting and travel blog. Elizabeth's husband is in the military so they're constantly moving to new places. She's figured out a playbook for transforming casual acquaintances into close friends, even if you're an introvert.
If you liked this episode, check out: "How To Talk to Strangers" with expert Susan Cain.
Do you have a question with no easy answers? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show.
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| 1:26.9 | I just think like compliments are the best thing and they're |
| 1:31.1 | such a good opener. Like if I'm standing in line or something, I will sometimes like look around and |
| 1:36.1 | think, is there someone standing near me? I can compliment. Like I guess because I haven't had |
| 1:39.4 | enough interaction. You know, like must drum up interaction. But it like always ends up being a very |
| 1:46.5 | pleasant experience, right? Welcome to how to. I'm Amanda Ripley. So let's talk about |
| 1:55.2 | friends for a second. My best friend, Catherine, I met her when I was 12. She's awesome. I don't know what I would do without her. |
| 2:03.9 | My other closest friends in life are mostly people I met freshman year of college when I was 18. |
| 2:10.4 | Since then, I've met a lot of amazing people who I love hanging out with. But most of those |
| 2:15.8 | friendships only run so deep. |
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