<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Village blog</title><description>Notes on finding the right people and building real friendships as an adult.</description><link>https://thevillageapp.com/</link><item><title>Making friends as an adult is a logistics problem</title><link>https://thevillageapp.com/blog/making-friends-as-an-adult/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thevillageapp.com/blog/making-friends-as-an-adult/</guid><description>It is not that you got worse at friendship. The two conditions that used to produce it for free, without anyone deciding anything, quietly left your week.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why a Circle is five to seven people</title><link>https://thevillageapp.com/blog/why-circles-are-small/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thevillageapp.com/blog/why-circles-are-small/</guid><description>Group size is not a detail. It decides whether anyone talks, whether anyone comes back, and whether the thing survives a cancelled weekend.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What actually works when you move somewhere new</title><link>https://thevillageapp.com/blog/moving-somewhere-new/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thevillageapp.com/blog/moving-somewhere-new/</guid><description>Moving does not just cost you your friends. It costs you the places and the routines that produced them, and most advice only addresses the first one.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>