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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a lot of friends. I think the emphasis on their personal qualities (kind, empathetic, nice) has little to do with how you make friends. The key thing for me, honestly, is availability. Do they have time to do things I like to do when I can do them? "True friendship" builds later.

My advice is just to pick someone you see in some context in your life who seems intriguing and offer to do something with them: like, take an art class, go for a walk, go get coffee, go running, show them the new coffee shop in town, whatever. You make friends by getting to know people a little better than you do know. If it goes well, then you do it again.  [/quote]

To follow up on this, I find exercise (if you like exercise) works really well because a lot of women are trying to squeeze it in to a packed schedule, and even if the friendship doesn't take off you get exercise. So for example, I have a really good friend where the friendship developed as a way of walking early on Saturday mornings. We hardly knew each other when we started--we met at a school function and it just took off once we were seeing each other weekly. When another acquaintance mentioned wanting to try a barre class but felt intimidated, I said I'd try it too. That sort of thing. Meeting up for a one-time exercise class is low-stakes and more fun than going alone and sometimes leads to something.[/quote]

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