Friendship
Kids make it look easy, so why is making friends as adults so hard?
It’s a key sign of social connection, but forging friendships at the start of university, a new job or a new neighbourhood can be daunting.
- Daniel Lo Surdo
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Despite ‘different interests’, these mates have had coffee every Sunday for 15 years
Same time, same table, same order: Ian and Scott met through their wives decades ago. Without ever planning ahead, they catch up over flat whites each week.
- Susan Horsburgh
‘A privilege’: What 15-year-old Charlie and other young carers want you to know
There are more than 390,000 carers under 25 in Australia, but their work often goes unnoticed, and advocates say more support is needed.
- Lauren Ironmonger
According to Oprah, it’s life-altering. So what is the ‘let them’ theory?
Friends making plans without you? Let them. Dating someone who’s sending you mixed signals? Let them.
- Emily McGrorey
I will never get to confront my former bully, but these people did
Do we need to forgive our high school bullies?
- Gary Nunn
The best six ways to make your friendships easier and more fun
A therapist shares her best tips for feeling closer to your favourite people.
- Emma Nadler
Hear ye, hear ye: The young people finding connection in historical role play
Across Australia, history enthusiasts are having serious fun with medieval times through dedicated clubs, and finding friendship and life skills along the way.
- Lauren Ironmonger
I’m a Millennial, she’s a Boomer, but we’re great mates
If we shed some of our age-related biases, what surprising friendships could find their way into our lives?
- Caroline Zielinski
I joined the next idiot tourist procession at the hospital
With Eurail passes and no plans, these “serious girls who had studied hard” were ready to cut loose, and Greece was calling.
- Jacqueline Maley
The summer I traded for five weeks with a French family
From blue cheese and frog legs, to learning Latin in French: here’s how I fared being thrown into a French winter with the vocabulary of a two-year-old.
- Millie Muroi
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