Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Chris Duffy isn't going to sugarcoat it: Making friends as an adult is hard. If you’ve ever tried to ...

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Making friends as an adult can be challenging thanks to competing responsibilities, fewer built-in social structures and less practice. Below, experts share helpful tips for how to improve your social ...

Around the globe, about 1 in 4 adults says they're lonely. And the consequences of long-term social disconnection can be dire — everything from an increased risk of heart attacks to dementia and ...

People say it takes a village to do difficult things: raise a child, sustain a community, build a barn. But we don't often talk a lot about what it takes to be a villager. What does it mean to not ...