Anyone else older than 26 feel like they no longer have good friends? With covid and being home all the time I feel like I have no friends at all.

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Yep. 28 here. All my friends are married and with kids. I am single and don’t want to be in a relationship.

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Down but I am in Texas

I feel the same way

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I can be your Doug

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I’m 26 and have 2 real friends, but they are my bro’s for life

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Same. Bros bros bros

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Same. But I don’t blame Covid, because all of my friends moved away pre-COVID, and I have made #nonewfriends since. I also had 2 kids, and I’m terrible at making friends with other kids’ parents, which is apparently what I’m supposed to do at this stage in my life now. Le sigh.

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Yup, but I struggle to meet like minded people. My emotional intelligence is off the chart, so I can see people's personality 'games' a mile away and find them boring and frustrating, so I end up letting relationships fizzle out. Now I've just come to accept it and just find my own contentment

Late 30s here, I've never had a bunch of friends--from my teens through my 20s, I generally had a circle of ~15 close friends. Now in my late 30s, that's shrunk down to closer to 10 close friends, but even through covid we've remained good friends.

I mean, outside of close friends, I really only have acquaintances, so yeah, I wouldn't count it as a bunch.

Life moves on and circumstances change, meet new people and reach out to the ones who moved on every once in a while.

29 & I know that feel

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