At 46, a grad school interviewer said, "You won't have the energy to keep up."
I took that energy and spent the next 6 years crafting a place.
If you’re 40+ and tired of spaces that don't feel like home, welcome to 2PM Club☕️
We’re just getting started✨
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I left the party at 9:15 and felt my whole body unclench.
For a lot of us, socializing in a group isn't connecting — it's performing. By hour two the tank's empty.
You don't have to be "on" to connect. A quieter way for people who'd rather not perform 🙂
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The friends used to just… happen. Now they don't.
It's not you. Three things that quietly built friendships in our 20s vanish in midlife — here's the research, and what still helps. 👇
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Nobody to text. Not nobody — just nobody for this.
Midlife loneliness doesn't arrive like grief. It arrives like quiet.
I wrote about the thing no one warns you about after 40 — and the small things that help. 👇
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Why 2PM Club Might Get Midlife Connection Right - A quieter corner of the internet
From the U.S. Surgeon General's 2023 advisory on loneliness and isolation:
15 Cigarettes a day — what disconnection does to your body, roughly, per the Surgeon General.
−20 hrs Less time spent with friends each month, from 2003 to 2020.
2× More likely to feel isolated at 2+ hours a day on social media vs. under 30 minutes.
For more detail, please read at https://t.co/kzYclt0i3L.