Nobody talks about why so many men quietly end up with no close friends, and it isn’t that they stopped caring, it’s often that the friendships were built around shared activities, and once the team, the job, or the season ended, nobody knew how to just call
According to the Survey Center on American Life’s 2021 American Perspectives Survey, the share of American men reporting no close friends rose from 3% in 1990 to 15% in 2021. That’s a fivefold jump in a single generation. Over the same window, the share of men with six or more cl…