4 Science-Backed Ways To Actually Make Friends As An Adult

It seems that adults have fewer close friends these days than they did 30 years ago – in the ’90s, a third of us said we had 10 close friends or more, but by the 2020s, that dropped to 13%. 

Not only that, but friendships – which research suggests tend to fade away at around age 25 anyway – are getting more expensive. 

Perhaps it’s no wonder that around a quarter of UK adults say they feel lonely “often, always or some of the time”. 

But making friends as an adult can feel difficult.