Discussion

Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up With Friendships

siva7: Is this something ai can fix?

xandrius: I imagine this comment being satirical but, given the audience, also not.

arduanika: Sure: pay your monthly subscription fee, and it keeps being your friend.

ashwinnair99: The problem isn't time. Most men never learned to maintain friendships without a shared context like school or work holding it together. When that scaffolding disappears, so do the friendships.

guessmyname: There’s already an app for that. I’m not being sarcastic. edit: I was going to share a link to a specific app that I found several weeks ago, but it looks like the market is full of them so I may just explain what they do… most of them are reminder apps in the form of a tiny video game (flower garden is a common theme) where each item, e.g. flower represents a friend, and you need to foster that friendship (aka. water the flower) by sending a message or scheduling a meet up to keep the relationship alive, just like a flower.

treetalker: > By Isabel Fattal---“What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.”― Fight Club

diogenescynic: Since I've had kids and moved cities, I have basically zero friends. I have a two friends about 40 minutes away but we're all too busy with kids and work to meet up more than really once a year. Having young kids really changes your social life in a way I wasn't entirely prepared for. I have no time left for anything other than family and work.