{"id":495151,"date":"2025-10-13T03:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/495151\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:35:12","slug":"how-to-keep-adult-friendships-and-stop-ghosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/495151\/","title":{"rendered":"How to keep adult friendships and stop ghosting"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We must catch up soon!”<\/b><\/p>\n

It’s a phrase near universal in adult friendships – a text we’ve likely both sent and received.<\/p>\n

We mean it in the moment, with the best of intentions. But between work, family and endless to-do lists, a simple catch-up can become a logistical nightmare.<\/p>\n

Yes, we must. But we rarely do.<\/p>\n

It explains why research <\/b>finds, external<\/a> we lose around half of our friends every seven years.<\/p>\n

It’s not that we’re suddenly “fundamentally incompatible”, says psychologist Dr Marisa Franco, but because relationships shift as life stages change.<\/p>\n

Be it moving in with partners, getting married, focusing on our careers or starting a family, friendships become “the easiest place for collateral damage” for both men and women explains author Dolly Alderton.<\/p>\n

The question becomes how to maintain the same closeness with less time together.<\/p>\n

Relationship expert Claire Cohen, author of BFF? The Truth About Female Friendship, who recently had a son is experiencing this first hand.<\/p>\n

She’s found herself in “identity limbo” between her old friends and the new group of mums she’s met through antenatal classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We must catch up soon!” It’s a phrase near universal in adult friendships – a text we’ve likely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-495151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115364765743830776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}