What do you do when your lifelong friends get married, have kids and disappear to the burbs or wherever and you’re single, lonely and gay?

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Continue to visit and be with your lifelong friends while finding friends that are in a similar position as you to do things with as well.

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find new friends

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I got recently married too at 33 but my friends got married around 28-30 years. It was tough. I agree with above suggestion. Be part of their lives as usual and support them have fun with them. They appreciate it too. But with wives/husbands/kids in the equation, there will be some boundaries that we have to understand.

On the side, find new friends. Not easy. I used to play tennis, cricket clubs to find other friends. You can have many more contacts from sports clubs where you can hangout with them every now and then. But hard to turn them into lifelong friends (speaking from my experience)

Get married, not lonely, and still gay

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