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The Financial Reason Behind Why It's So Hard To Make Adult Friends, Explained

The Financial Reason Behind Why It's So Hard To Make Adult Friends, Explained

Update: 2025-08-09
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Why is it so hard to make friends as an adult now? There’s been lots of talk in recent years about the difficulty of making new friends in our modern era once you’re out of college, and about the loneliness epidemic at large. There are, of course, many causes for this, but one major one is actually financial. While money (or lack of it) affects so much of our day to day lives, you might be surprised at just how much of our current financial issues (individually and societally) are contributing to our friendship woes. So, what’s really going on here? And… is there anything we can do about it?! Let’s take a closer look at four of the biggest money-related obstacles to building friendships in adulthood, and then we’ll dig into some ways people are finding solutions!



00:00 Intro


00:47 Crushed for time (& energy...)


04:39 Can't afford to do anything


07:14 The loss of third spaces


09:31 The good & bad of social media...


11:07 We can't afford *not* to have community

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The Financial Reason Behind Why It's So Hard To Make Adult Friends, Explained

The Financial Reason Behind Why It's So Hard To Make Adult Friends, Explained

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