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[quote=Anonymous]There was an article somewhere recently (nytimes maybe?) about the difficulty in making friends at this stage in life, and I think they boiled it down to the fact that friendships arise most easily when you have many spontaneous interactions with the same group of people. So high school, college, grad school etc. where you run into the same people over and over in different contexts (same classe, same eating spots, same gym, etc) are fertile friendship breeding grounds whereas life mid-30s just isn't. I think that's one of the reasons previous threads on friendship often have posters who say they struggled to make friends here until their kids were in a neighborhood preschool or elementary school and they started having more of those spontaneous interactions with other parents.

Not sure how you best can use that advice, but it may be worth thinking about how you could change your habits to create more of those opportunities. Join the gym your coworkers go to (that was a big start of friendships at one of my previous workplaces), grab coffee regularly at your neighborhood hotspot where you're more likely to run into neighbors, spend time outside in good weather, where you're likely to run into those same people, etc.[/quote]

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