Hi and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on I-Heart Radio.

We're going to take a break from the dating episodes and talk about friendships.

I talk to guests often about making friends in adulthood

because so many people have moved in the last few years. I just think it's been

a few years of major transitions for a lot of people.

I think COVID really shook things up.

And that of course includes me.

I grew up in Brooklyn and other than leaving for college and some other short stints, some elsewhere.

I spent my life in New York City.

New York was my small town. I'd run into people all the time.

I had my favorite dry cleaner, my favorite shoe repair guy,

my favorite nail salon, all of it.

The hardest part has been being apart from family obviously but

changing my entire life in my 40s has been challenging in some other ways too.

The Making friends part is difficult.

We're lucky. We knew a lot of people moving to Florida. Florida became kind of the it state

for a while there.

And people were moving around the same time we did.

Acquaintances became friends.

You might see some of that on my social media.

We're busy a lot.

It's not that we don't have real friends here. We do. We're missing something else or I am. I don't think my husband cares about this at all.

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