From DMs to drinks: adult friendship unlocked.
Making friends in adulthood is hard—period. On any given day we’re consumed with exhausting work schedules, squeezed-in Pilates sessions, dinner dates and a laundry list of tedious tasks (NTM laundry). Mix in moving to a new city where you don’t know a soul, and you’ve got a recipe for social disaster.
After relocating from Pennsylvania this summer, I resorted to the internet to find new friends (it worked in meeting my boyfriend!). Of course, meeting people online is nothing new. What is shaking things up, though, is The Raleigh Girls Club—a Facebook group of 23K+ local women looking to build connections and make friends. And, yes, the plans make it out of the group chat.
“My goal was to create a welcoming, inclusive space where women could genuinely connect, support one another and build community,” shares founder/CEO Katie Paxton, who launched the group after moving to Raleigh solo and learning how tough it is to make real friendships as an adult…