You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard | Here & Now
Forming new friendships as an adult can seem like an impossible feat. Psychologist Marisa G. Franco shares her top tips for making genuine connections.
Support WBUR Friends holding cups of coffee. (Getty Images) This segment was rebroadcast on July 20, 2022. Click here for that audio. Marisa G. Franco's new book on the science of making and keeping friends " Platonic " comes out on Sept. 6. When you were a kid, it seemed like you could walk up to just about anybody and be best friends the next minute. But somewhere along the long, winding road to adulthood, making new friends became an impossibly hard thing to do. Well according to psychologist and University of Maryland professor Marisa G. Franco , that’s because as you get older, making fri
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