Who Will Help Move The Couch? 3 Ideas For Making Friends As A Grownup

Do you have a friend who you could call in the middle of the night? Or even help you move a couch? In my book Breadcrumb Legacy: How Great Leaders Live a Life Worth Remembering (Routledge), I challenge readers to think about who they could call to help them move a couch when thinking about adult friendships. Since most of our friendships often emerge from work, we can lack a social network when we leave the workplace.

It started a few years ago, when all three of my adult sons were in college, my husband asked me to help him move the couch to a different room. I started to do it, and then asked, “Don’t you have someone you could call? A friend to help you?”