Does it get harder to make friends when you get older? (husband, person)
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I'm very late 20s and seem to only hang out with friends I've had for 5 or more years. Seems like it's hard to connect with other people nowadays and develop anything more than an acquaintance. Anybody else experience this as you get older? What is it like in your 30s?
I'm very late 20s and seem to only hang out with friends I've had for 5 or more years. Seems like it's hard to connect with other people nowadays and develop anything more than an acquaintance. Anybody else experience this as you get older? What is it like in your 30s?
You stay close to the true friends and lose the rest..make new ones with the same job or life experiences you have at that time.
I have made more "true" friends in my 30's compared to my 20's. By true friends I mean ones that are long term rather than the one's in my earlier years. I was in a different place then and as I got older my preference for certain personality types changed.
I'm very late 20s and seem to only hang out with friends I've had for 5 or more years. Seems like it's hard to connect with other people nowadays and develop anything more than an acquaintance. Anybody else experience this as you get older? What is it like in your 30s?
I think it gets harder to find people you want to be friends with.
I'm very late 20s and seem to only hang out with friends I've had for 5 or more years. Seems like it's hard to connect with other people nowadays and develop anything more than an acquaintance. Anybody else experience this as you get older? What is it like in your 30s?
I found it easier in my 30`s as well, to make friends. I was more settled down, and looking for an entire diffrent type of friendship, and conversation, than in my earlier years.
i think if you lived in the same place your whole life and there are no "new" people moving in, then it really is harder to make freinds as all of them have freinds already. when you come to a new situation, new job, etc, that is when you find new freinds.
people just seem to stick together with old freinds. you dont really have to work as hard
You're probably stuck in a rutt.
If you always try new things, you'll probably meet new people.
If you meet new people, you'll probably make new friends.
Exactly. And many already have enough family and friends and even if they like you they don't necessarily need you or have time for you...
I have found this to be very true--I'm always on the receiving end of this. People seem to be "crazy busy"--they already have their family and friends so they don't have time or want to make the effort to start a friendship with someone new.
I'm in my early 30's and have found it much more difficult to make friends in my 30's than in my 20's. I think the main problem is that I'm married, but don't yet have kids, and so it's hard for both me and my husband to find people to hang out with who are in the same circumstance. Single people don't want to waste their time hanging out with us, and married people tend to have kids at this age so they prefer to socialize with couples who also have kids or they just don't have time. In my 20's, it was much easier to make friends, as people tended to still be single or to be married without kids, and thus it was easier to find others to relate to. We have had zero luck in making any friends in the last several years--it's very lonely, that's for sure.
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