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Experts share easy tips on how to make friends as an adult. Follow these strategies to build lasting friendships in your 20s, 30s, 40s and beyond.
The post How to make friends as an adult appeared first on TheGrio. OPINION: It may be harder to make lasting friendships in adulthood, but here are some ideas that may make it easier. The post ...
Here’s another reason to keep nurturing your social life after 65. ... the health risks of social isolation for adults over 50 may rival those of smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity ...
Adults with a dismissive style of avoidant attachment tend to agree with these statements: [23] I am comfortable without close emotional relationships. It is important to me to feel independent and self-sufficient. I prefer not to depend on others or have others depend on me. Adults with this attachment style desire a high level of independence.
In conversation with theGrio, “friendship educator” Danielle Bayard Jackson, author of “Fighting for Our Friendships,” discusses making and maintaining adult […]
McAdams and de St. Aubin developed a 20-item scale to assess generativity, and to help discover who it is that is nurturing and leading the next generation. [4] This model is not restricted to stages, with generativity able to be a concern throughout adulthood, not just in middle adulthood, as Erikson suggested.
The developmental needs meeting strategy (DNMS) is a psychotherapy approach developed by Shirley Jean Schmidt. [1] It is designed to treat adults with psychological trauma wounds (such as those inflicted by verbal, physical, and sexual abuse) and with attachment wounds (such as those inflicted by parental rejection, neglect, and enmeshment).
O’Brien says friends may want to consider attending a recovery peer support meeting together if there’s a similar life struggle such as dieting or co-dependency that brings you together.