What I've Learned about Making Friends as an Adult
Let's Be Cleere
Cleere
5.0 • 740 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Friendship didn’t stop mattering when we became adults.
It just became more layered, more tender, and more vulnerable.
The Bible never treats friendship as optional or superficial. From the very beginning, God said something was not good — and it wasn’t work, purpose, or responsibility. It was isolation.
“It is not good for man to be alone.” — Genesis 2:18
Friendship is not a bonus feature of life.
It’s part of how God forms us.
But because adult friendship looks different than it used to, there are a few quiet lies that tend to creep in — often unnoticed — and shape how we interpret our experiences.
Dive deeper into the notes from this episode and more on substack at cleerelystated.substack.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. How are you? I am so thankful for a new episode of Let's Be Clear. |
| 0:08.5 | Today we're digging into a topic that Woe was very highly requested and is essentially |
| 0:15.0 | what I've learned, or honestly, kind of what we've all learned, I feel like, as making friends about making friends as an adult. |
| 0:27.5 | How do we do that? |
| 0:29.5 | I think people are scared to ask it. |
| 0:31.2 | It was funny. |
| 0:31.7 | It was like people wanted so much to talk about it. |
| 0:34.5 | People feel lonely. |
| 0:35.5 | People are wondering, wait a second, they have their circles. I'm trying to figure it out. But it feels like one of those things where you're kind of |
| 0:41.5 | like ashamed or nervous to say that you want to talk about friendship or it feels hard or it feels |
| 0:46.8 | strained or it's been a struggle. And so I don't know, something I was really excited to dig into. |
| 0:54.5 | And it relates to all of us. |
| 0:56.5 | Like, people are the point. |
| 0:59.1 | And everyone, and I do mean everyone thinks about this and struggles with it and walks |
| 1:04.2 | through different seasons of it and all of that. |
| 1:06.5 | So that's what we're going to dig into today. |
| 1:08.1 | But I did want to just quick housekeeping and let you guys |
| 1:12.8 | know that the substack, if you have been following along, you know that we started a substack |
| 1:19.5 | called the living room. And I am so thankful to have so many of you guys on the couch already. |
| 1:25.8 | So honestly, you know, we're all craving that |
| 1:30.5 | depth. I mean, that's something that you guys tell me a lot. And we want to live lives that are not |
| 1:37.0 | in the shallow end. We want to walk in the purpose that God's called us to. We want to be present in our |
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