A guide to making friends as an adult in the Queen City

For most, making friends as a kid was suspiciously easy. Sit next to someone in class. Join the same sports team. Discover you both like the same band. Boom: friendship. Then adulthood happens. Suddenly, making a new friend requires finding an opening in two packed calendars, leaving the comfort of your couch and working up the nerve to ask another grown adult if they would, perhaps, like to hang out sometime. “Inconvenience,” Kellan Oxley said when asked why making friends gets harder with age. “It’s inconvenient to have friends.” Oxley knows the struggle. She started Meet Her in Cincinnati after buying a home in the area and realizing she wanted something pretty simple: friends who lived close enough to spontaneously grab coffee, walk their dogs or just hang out. “I don’t know anyone I could just text or call and ask to go grab a coffee with me, like just up the street,” she said. So, she did what any person trying to meet people in 2026 might do. She turne