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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think for many of us Covid was a pivotal event because I know for me and my spouse, we were more social pre-Covid but then people's social groups narrowed a lot during Covid and people stopped getting together with larger groups.

Like we used to socialize fairly frequently with two other couples and their kids, but during Covid they socialized with each other but rarely invited us. And they both have homes with large outdoor spaces, making Covid-era socializing with families easier, but we don't have this and couldn't host. Plus their kids are closer in age to each other than ours. So it's not like they dropped us, but we did get squeezed out of the group. I'm not offended by it, but it still hurts, and it has impacted our social experience.

Also, during Covid people just basically stopped making new friends. You couldn't form friendships with other couples and families in this same way because everything was remote and even when things were in person, Covid made people more wary of strangers. It's better now but people are still far less open to new friendships than pre-Covid, in my experience. Especially true with family friendships. There are families at my kids' school that it's kind of strange we aren't more friendly because our kids get along well and we're same age and live in the same area. But people are socializing more with established friends and family, and we're cordial but don't hang out. This feels like a difference from pre-Covid.

So the combination of losing friendships during Covid, and people being slower to make new friends or not making new friends, inevitably means that more people are lonely and feeling isolated. [/quote]

Yes! There is a clear difference between my social life pre Covid and post. People stopped hanging out, people moved away, and people found new friends.

Another issue: my friends have always been through my kid’s school. Well, their school and friends have changed (multiple times over!), and people i used to be close with have all gone separate ways.

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