Friendships During The Pandemic: Wherefore Art Thou?

Maintaining friendships during quarantine is a struggle. Many people are feeling the absence of lost connections.

Virus Outbreak Germany Helping Families
Markus Schreiber / Associated Press
Virus Outbreak Germany Helping Families
Markus Schreiber / Associated Press

Friendships During The Pandemic: Wherefore Art Thou?

Maintaining friendships during quarantine is a struggle. Many people are feeling the absence of lost connections.

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Whole tiers of relationships seem to have fallen out of our lives in the face of social distancing. Reset brings on two friendship experts to talk about the current landscape for maintaining social ties during quarantine.

GUESTS: Kat Vellos, connection coach; author of We Should Get Together: The Secret To Cultivating Better Friendships
Smiley Poswolsky, author Friendship in the Age of Loneliness: An Optimists Guide To Connection