I need friends
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Anonymous
| Anyone want to hang out? I wish all these awesome 45+ women on here with whom I relate so strongly could reveal themselves to me. I’m really fun and have a list of really cool list of awesome things to do around here if I only I had someone to do them with. Anyone else love live music? A day at the winery? Staring at the ocean? Hiking with your dog? Try clubbing one night just to remember how fun it is to dance and not care? I know it would help with all the stresses I (and everyone else) seem to feel with being a sandwich. Boring husband who never wants to do or initiate anything? Go out with your friends!! I just wish I knew where you all were. I can’t seem to find you. |
Anonymous
| DCUM should have a Social Hour |
Anonymous
| I do that kind of thing on my own when my handful of friends aren’t available. I’m an empty nester with plenty of time to fit a new friend in. Where are you? |
Anonymous
| Same boat. I'm in MoCo. |
Anonymous
| I would love to join in the following: Anyone else love live music? A day at the winery? Staring at the ocean? Hiking with your dog? |
Anonymous
It's so hard. I posted about this a couple days ago and, so far, am not having a lot of luck finding "meetups" and things that are directed to my demographic (in terms of age, local, non-single). It's frustrating. And giving me some anxiety over what the next 30 years is going to look like . . . . I don't do well when I'm bored or when I don't have social outlets. |
Anonymous
| Can you create a special meet up group with the name here in this thread? Maybe then you can capture the DCUM crowd. |
Anonymous
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I think you should give meetups based on your interests a try. Although I am single, I found several good female friends this way. Some single, some not.
Just give it time and you’ll run into the same people again and again and you can do stuff outside of a meetup. Good luck, you sound fun! |
Anonymous
who doesn’t like this? your dh refuses all these things?? |
Anonymous
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I found a couple of friends through taking my old dog to an agility class. People socialize while they wait their turn. While the chatting with each other in class happened pretty quickly after the class formation, meeting 1-on-1 out of class took a long while. But it did happen!
I also want to say to the OP that some friendships I've had, I've paid for. For example, I know an amazing PT that had kids the same age as mine and we really hit it off. We solved so many of our parenting problems at our sessions. The problem was she was (and still is) so darn busy that we could rarely meet outside. If she had any free time, she it went to her kids. So, I took the friendship along with it's limitations. |
Anonymous
+1. I guess we could set something up on Meetup. |
Anonymous
| Another MoCo, 50+ mom here. Have very little free time but love the idea of meeting up at a winery or happy hour somewhere. |
Anonymous
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+2 in Northern Virginia.
Just read an article in NYT about the prevalence of loneliness in young adults, which tapers off during "mid life", and then picks up again post 60'ish years old. I'm feeling this really hard, right now. 
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Anonymous
| Set something up!! I’ll join. |
Anonymous
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Me too! I’m in northern Virginia and feeling this so much. Just reading these posts makes me feel not so alone. It’s a scary prospect looking at the upcoming years with no social circle to enjoy.
I would love to meet! |