A study that tracked how friendships form found it takes about 200 hours to turn an acquaintance into a close friend, and that number explains adult loneliness better than any personality trait

A study that tracked how friendships form found it takes about 200 hours to turn an acquaintance into a close friend, and that number explains adult loneliness better than any personality trait

There’s someone you like. You met them a year or two ago, at work or at a party or through the person you were dating at the time. The conversation was good. You both said the thing people say, which is that you should really do this more often. You have seen them maybe six times since. You like them exactly as much as you did. And they are still, by any honest accounting, not your friend. Nothing went wrong, which is the confusing part. There w…