What I've Learned about Making Friends as an Adult

About this episode

The episode explores the importance of adult friendship and its spiritual significance, emphasizing that it is essential to human experience as per biblical teachings.

Friendship didn’t stop mattering when we became adults. It just became more layered, more tender, and more vulnerable. The Bible never treats friendship as optional or superficial. From the very beginning, God said something was not good — and it wasn’t work, purpose, or responsibility. It was isolation. “It is not good for man to be alone.” — Genesis 2:18 Friendship is not a bonus feature of life. It’s part of how God forms us. But because adult friendship looks different than it used to, there are a few quiet lies that tend to creep in — often unnoticed — and shape how we interpret our experiences. Dive deeper into the notes from this episode and more on substack at cleerelystated.substack.com

People in this episode

Host: Cleere

Topics covered

• friendship
• adulthood
• vulnerability
• spirituality
• isolation
• Christianity

Keywords

• adult friendship
• spiritual growth
• isolation
• vulnerability
• Christian teachings

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Genesis 2:18

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