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How to Make Male Friends as a Grown Ass Man

Unlocking and Understanding How to Make and Keep Male Friendships

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How to Make Male Friends as a Grown Ass Man

By: Ben D. Ingham
Narrated by: Oliver Hunt
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Let’s address the elephant in the man cave: making male friends as an adult is weirdly hard. You’re not in school anymore. No one assigns lab partners. And yelling “nice lift, bro” at the gym does not make a friendship.

This book is the inspiring and refreshingly honest field guide every grown ass man secretly needs—but never knew how to ask for.

Written with sharp wit and zero fluff, How to Make Male Friends as a Grown Ass Man dismantles the awkward myths around male bonding and replaces them with practical, actionable strategies that actually work in the real world. No “just be confident” nonsense. No alpha-posturing. No kumbaya circles (unless you’re into that—no judgment).

Instead, you’ll learn:

  • Why adult male friendships quietly disappear—and how to stop the fade-out
  • Why emotional intelligence is the hidden superpower of men with strong social lives
  • How to initiate friendships without sounding desperate, creepy, or like you’re pitching an MLM
  • The difference between activity buddies and real friends—and why you need both
  • How to deepen male friendships without awkward oversharing or emotional whiplash
  • What to do when friendships drift, stall, or die (hint: it’s not ghosting)

This book stands out because it tells the truth men rarely hear: loneliness isn’t a personal failure—it’s a skill gap. And skills can be learned.

Blending psychology, emotional intelligence, real-world scenarios, and laugh-out-loud clarity, this guide helps you build friendships that survive busy schedules, marriages, kids, career chaos, and the slow erosion of “we should grab a beer sometime.”

The 2026 updated version is available now on Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover, and Audible.

©2019 Ben D Ingham (P)2026 Ben D Ingham
Communication & Social Skills Friendship Personal Development Relationships
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A genuinely great book. Found this modern, fresh, honest and not cheesy at all (which is what I was worried about at first).

Actually great

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I was dubious at first and thought this might be cheesy, but sincerely this was helpful and gave me some very good advice.

Very good.

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Magazine review convinced me to get this book.
Found it interesting, informative and very useful.
Modern which was a relief and NOT CHEESY!

10 out of 10

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I could have written this myself. The suggestions were so obvious, that I found it complete waste of money and a complete waste of time.

it's not to say say the content wasn't relevant, it was just so obvious that you could look out of a window and think of all of this yourself...

I could have written this myself

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I thought the book was hopeless and felt Id wasted a credit. Surprised that there seemed to be so many positive reviews.

Not very good at all

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