How Do Men Actually Make Friends as Adults?

Men's Mental Health Series · Feb 3, 2026 · 9m

How do you make friends as an adult? Seriously, how does that even happen?

In this solo episode of The Men’s Mental Health Series, I talk through something a lot of men quietly struggle with but rarely say out loud, loneliness, connection, and how we actually build real friendships as grown men. Not surface level banter at work, but the kind of relationships where you can open up about what you are thinking, what you are feeling, and what you are working through.

I share my own experience with vulnerability, trial and error, opening up to the wrong people sometimes, and learning that…