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re: When did you stop making 'real' friends?
Posted on 8/22/14 at 11:48 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Posted on 8/22/14 at 11:48 pm to siliconvalleytiger
After college. I think it tends to correlate when you actually dive into your career and you don't treat it as a social outlet.
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Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:11 am to siliconvalleytiger
After college.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:28 am to siliconvalleytiger
I'm not married, but most of my friends are. I've got 5 close ones and another 2 I hang out with when I'm with the others. I didn't meet the ones I hang out with now until I was 27, I'm 33 now. I hang out with them usually once a week. Y'all just have shitty wives or they have shitty wives. The key is being friends with the wives too. Those 5 close friends includes two different couples and one single guy. The other two are a married couple as well. We do stuff for each other all the time, they are closer to me than my own family in many ways.
This post was edited on 8/23/14 at 12:30 am
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:34 am to siliconvalleytiger
I don't think you really stop. It just becomes more difficult.
I am friends with my coworkers. But they all live in different parts of the valley or have kids so it makes it difficult to really hang out with them.
Most of my really close friends all live back in LA.
Honestly...I only have one good friend out here that I see on a regular basis. Would love to make more friends, but in your 30s...just difficult. People are so busy with their families at my age.
I am friends with my coworkers. But they all live in different parts of the valley or have kids so it makes it difficult to really hang out with them.
Most of my really close friends all live back in LA.
Honestly...I only have one good friend out here that I see on a regular basis. Would love to make more friends, but in your 30s...just difficult. People are so busy with their families at my age.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:05 am to siliconvalleytiger
Sounds like being married must be a strain on "making" new friends. I never married & I've made lots of new friends through out the 30 years that I've been out of school.
Moved to Dallas in 1984 & made new friends all along. Fifty-five now. I became really close friends with a guy I worked with in my forties. He passed away a couple of years ago and even though I'd only known him for about eight years, he'd become my closest friend. I think his wife handled his death better than I did.
Moved to Dallas in 1984 & made new friends all along. Fifty-five now. I became really close friends with a guy I worked with in my forties. He passed away a couple of years ago and even though I'd only known him for about eight years, he'd become my closest friend. I think his wife handled his death better than I did.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:07 am to siliconvalleytiger
Scruffy has no friends. 
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:26 am to siliconvalleytiger
I've never had a friend so...
Posted on 8/23/14 at 7:17 am to siliconvalleytiger
I wouldn't say "stopped" as much as I would say "slowed down". Married with kids does that. But let me add that the older I get, the less tolerant I get of bullshite.
I used to be much more welcoming to it when younger (and more naive). That part definitely puts a strain on making good friends.
I used to be much more welcoming to it when younger (and more naive). That part definitely puts a strain on making good friends.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 7:41 am to siliconvalleytiger
I still make lunch threads, but I've backed off making other threads due to being bullied and chastised. What was the question again?
Posted on 8/23/14 at 7:41 am to siliconvalleytiger
21
Posted on 8/23/14 at 8:54 am to siliconvalleytiger
Around 25 years old.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 9:00 am to siliconvalleytiger
when i got married, i have one real friend that i would bury a body for
Posted on 8/23/14 at 9:02 am to siliconvalleytiger
All my friends are in Louisiana :(
Posted on 8/23/14 at 9:09 am to siliconvalleytiger
When I think that the people on the OT are the most pessimistic, glass half empty group of people, threads like this come up and I realize most of you are really even more pessimistic than I thought before.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 10:26 am to siliconvalleytiger
I'm 27, and like others have said, I don't consider hardly anybody a close friend, but I have a ton of acquaintances that I'm down to hang out with.
One of my best friends lives in Birmingham, the other is a cousin and we live in the same town. Those are the two that I'm most comfortable with. I see one maybe two or three times a year, and the other is girl cousin, so that's kind of weird, but whatever... I have gotten to be pretty good friends with her husband over the last couple years, but sometimes I think he's even got a career oriented goal that correlates with our friendship. He basically wants to do what I do, and if he can't accomplish that, he wants me as a customer. When we put that aside, it's a good friendship, but I get annoyed sometimes when he wants to talk business during social time.
Then there are a couple others that I don't see much, but are still close friends that I grew up with.
Otherwise, it's just people coming and going.
If I ever get married, I have a feeling that I'll be making a couple awkward phone calls looking for groomsmen to keep up with the ridiculous amount of bridesmaids that seem to be at weddings these days.
One of my best friends lives in Birmingham, the other is a cousin and we live in the same town. Those are the two that I'm most comfortable with. I see one maybe two or three times a year, and the other is girl cousin, so that's kind of weird, but whatever... I have gotten to be pretty good friends with her husband over the last couple years, but sometimes I think he's even got a career oriented goal that correlates with our friendship. He basically wants to do what I do, and if he can't accomplish that, he wants me as a customer. When we put that aside, it's a good friendship, but I get annoyed sometimes when he wants to talk business during social time.
Then there are a couple others that I don't see much, but are still close friends that I grew up with.
Otherwise, it's just people coming and going.
If I ever get married, I have a feeling that I'll be making a couple awkward phone calls looking for groomsmen to keep up with the ridiculous amount of bridesmaids that seem to be at weddings these days.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 11:06 am to siliconvalleytiger
I'm 24 and I think it's starting to happen now. Seems like everyone is either getting married and want to be stuck up each other's asses or the others just kill their brain cells.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 11:08 am to siliconvalleytiger
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This post was edited on 8/24/14 at 11:23 am
Posted on 8/23/14 at 11:10 am to siliconvalleytiger
Like back before people had something to gain from it?
Teenager I suppose.
I now call them alliances.
Teenager I suppose.
I now call them alliances.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 11:25 am to siliconvalleytiger
Sorry you're a loser.
I'm friends with everyone I meet... Fact.
I'm friends with everyone I meet... Fact.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 11:52 am to siliconvalleytiger
I have quite a few 'real' friends. They were all people I grew up with from an early age and we still hang out each week.
I honestly can't think of anyone I've met in my 20s that I consider a 'real' friend. Meaning someone I could entrust with some serious secrets or something.
I honestly can't think of anyone I've met in my 20s that I consider a 'real' friend. Meaning someone I could entrust with some serious secrets or something.
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