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Through this series of posts in early 2025, I’m making my case for The Year for Better Male Friendships. The reasons for my stance are numerous: 57% of men report feeling lonely and 15% claim to have no close friends at all; both significantly higher since 1990. So I agree with others about many reasons for The Decline of Friendship. In this post, I explain that men are their worst enemies when making and keeping friends. After that, I will follow up with another post about the barriers that keep men from making deeper, more authentic friendships. The Real Reasons for Our Loss of Friends Here is a summary of previous posts in this series that explain some reasons why friendships have changed for men. These are all valid concerns and why the U.S. Surgeon General’s office released an advisory sounding the alarm on the epidemic of loneliness plaguing our

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

In this post, I continue this series that 2025 is The Year for Better Male Friendships. Via several posts, I am making my case that men need deeper, more authentic friends because 57% of men report feeling lonely, and 15% claim to have no close friends at all; numbers that are significantly higher since 1990. In this post, I explain how the virtual world pulls males from the real world. This retreat keeps boys and men from developing the skills to become competent, successful, and loving adults who succeed in work, love, and marriage.  Our Time with Friends is Dropping Previous posts in the series included an interesting video on The Decline of Friendship. I also wrote about how The Life-Stages of Friendships impact how we make and keep friends changes as we get older. More recently, there are other factors that impact friendships. I explained in No Time for