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Making friends as a twenty-something
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After graduating college, I've found it extremely hard to find friends. I love my group of girlfriends that I have from school, but we've all gone in different directions and I don't have a lot of close friends where I live. I don't work in a particularly "young" office and it's not like I can go up to random girls and say, "Hi! Want to be bffs??" Does anyone else have this problem?
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I've met a lot of people through my friends. I knew a few people from school when I moved to a new city and then kind of branched out from there. I think a good way to meet people is through extra-curricular activities after work...like a coed softball league or a coed soccer team. Or going to random events that are being held in your city like fashion shows or wine tasting events.
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Hey, I've had the same problem for a while as well. After college, I moved to SoCal with my boyfriend of 6 years, and when I left him 2 years later, I ended up leaving all my friends as well. Not terrible after all, since they were closer to him, and made me feel insecure a lot of the time b/c I wasn't exactly like them. It's been a really slow process, and very hit/miss but I think things are starting to work for me. I met a really cool gal at a pole-dancing class actually. We found out we both love to ride road bikes and cook, so we're trying to make plans to hang out outside of the class, even with the obstacles of living in different cities. Still have to get through that awkward "getting-to-know-you" stage, but we are both kooky and ended up sharing our frustration with making new friends, and kind of blurted out how relieved we were to have met a non-freaky new friend!
How's the search going for you?
