1 / 3 of men frequently feel lonely. We explore the challenges of contemporary male friendships

A years that are few, four of my male friends and we spontaneously organised a visit into the Peak District. None of us is strictly Bear Grylls, but we stuffed some hiking boots, emptied Sainsbury’s and dedicated to 48 hours within the wilderness that is relative of. We can’t quite keep in mind the way we created concept, but we demonstrably felt that investing a week-end in a lonely, rural cottage could be an essential move to make.

One thing fascinating took place on that journey, although the routine ended up being pretty mundane.

We invested almost all of the time ingesting and carefully humiliating one another, while you might expect. There is a failed effort to prepare a beef Wellington and a very ill-judged hike that ended having a trespassing incident that is unfortunate. But which wasn’t the level of things.

Though we had all been buddys since college, we’d never ever been away together. It absolutely was liberating to go out of London and deposit ourselves on a misty, north moor.