
Men Do Friendships Differently Than Women
My last post in this series making my case for 2025 as The Year for Better Male Friendships, I explained some of the ways technology, smartphones, and social media impact boys and young men differently as it relates to our friendships. In this next post, I explain why our friendships are different from females and begin to detail some reasons why we struggle to make and keep friends. Men Have Connection Issues My initial post for the series included a video by Richard Reeves on The Decline of Friendship. It stated that recent studies show that 57% of men report feeling lonely and 15% claim to have no close friends at all, which is a significant change since 1990. In my book, Get Out of Your Man Cave: The Crisis of Male Friendships and a previous post in this series, I wrote about the The Life-Stages of Friendships which is