I'm a middle-aged man and father who struggles to make friends. Here's how I worked through my loneliness.

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The author, not pictured, struggled to make friends.

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I just finished my freshman year at Yale. I'm worried I didn't make deep, long-lasting friendships.

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The author, middle, worries he didn't make enough friends in college.

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An 83-year-old who moved from New York to Florida explains how she's working to prevent loneliness and make friends — without playing pickleball

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I worried I'd lose all my work friends when I quit. It surprisingly brought us closer together.

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Rachel Craft, left, worried about losing work friends when she quit, but they became closer instead.

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Casual friendships are dying out — and we're all worse off for it

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Casual friendships are key to our emotional lives, but these "fringe friends" are slowly disappearing.

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Nikol Moses felt the itch to head somewhere new.

It's hard to make friends in Palm Springs because, in my 50s, I'm one of the younger residents. Many retirees move here.

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Shelly Karpaty says she recently moved to Palm Springs, California, where most people are retired.

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My work wife and I got so close that she started sleeping at my house to shorten her commute. We stopped talking when she left the company.

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The author became close friends with her coworker.

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