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re: 15% of men report having no close friends, up from only 3% in 1990
Posted on 6/28/21 at 9:58 pm to dirtytigers
Posted on 6/28/21 at 9:58 pm to dirtytigers
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I can understand wanting to be alone for times to recharge. But that all the times is a depressing way to live
I'm a married adult, not a teenager that needs to barhop every weekend.
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Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:00 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I really don't have many friends, but it doesn't bother me. My kids get my time.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:01 pm to LouisianaLady
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My best friend of 25 years does not go to restaurants and bars. I assume this to be the case with a lot of married people with young kids. Even her and her husband and child don't really go out for sit down meals. All takeout or cooked meals at home. Little to zero alcohol.
Maybe we’re outliers but we still frequent restaurants both with and without our child, and she’s still very young. Also, on weekends if we’re not going somewhere we have friends or family over at our house.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:01 pm to tigafan4life
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tigafan4life
I find you to be a lot more outgoing IRL than you describe here, if that makes a difference at all!
I don't think someone with young children not wanting to deal with them out in public makes them introverted necessarily. I wouldn't want to deal with that shite either if I were them!
And I don't think not having time or whatever is bad either. Well, actually back up. I don't think not having a ~close friends~ is bad at all per se. It is just very different than my personality.
Fallguy mentioned age and people being extreme outliers... I'm 30, my SO is 39 (and his close group of friends are all 40 now).. and my close group of girlfriends are 35, 37, and 37. We aren't 20 here. I think having friends and prioritizing them is more normal than folks who don't feel that way about friendships assume.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:02 pm to Kafka
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:08 pm to LouisianaLady
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I don't think someone with young children not wanting to deal with them out in public makes them introverted necessarily.
But if you have young children and are introverted - then you have no friends - and come to a site like TigerDroppings to count it as socializing
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:09 pm to GreenRockTiger
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and come to a site like TigerDroppings to count it as socializing
You're always on here, muchacho. fricking always.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:09 pm to Smeg
No one in this thread has said anything about bar hoping. I havent bar hoped since before Covid. To each their own, but I enjoy hanging out with not only my significant other but also other successful professionals that I have known forever
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:11 pm to chalmetteowl
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people are poisoned with a toxic mindset that anyone trying to get ahead in life is vile and needs to be brought to heel.
the feeling is mutual to them… they don’t particularly like the people who are happy and settle for a status quo
By my 30s I have managed to figure out for myself the things most of these people are "fighting" the status quo for.
I've come off losing 45 lbs, best shape of my life and have a great healthcare plan due to my job, so being around someone who has eaten themselves obese (personally witnessed the diet horrors myself) and complains about how they can't afford their health problems just slowly becomes intolerable to be around.
Funny thing is this person actually makes way more than I do, but every night is eating out for a feast for his family.
Like I said, it's less about politics and more about the toxic mindset that I don't care to be around anymore. I've got my shite together, don't need to hear about any of your problems if you're going to be offended by my solutions.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:13 pm to Flashback
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You're always on here, muchacho. fricking always.
Always logged in, yes, but not necessarily always here
And why the muchacho?
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:15 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
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15% of yall must be lame as frick and not go out anywhere.
Guys can have friends even if they are assholes, frickups, lazy, poor, whatever. Just be cool. Drink beer, watch sports, play fantasy football, make friends. It's fricking simple.
Girls on the other hand are counts to each other by nature and there has to be a perfect balance in the universe for women to make friends.
Yeah well, I have a lot of “friends” but very few who’d I consider “close friends” and even fewer of that who’d I’d say will be there no matter what if shite goes down. Maybe a few.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:16 pm to LouisianaLady
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does not go to restaurants and bars.
I personally don’t understand either, but I’ll cut some slack and maybe understand that a bar isn’t where a non drinker would go, but a restaurant?? That’s just downright weird.
Does this person leave the house?
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:25 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Gamers
and/or
Pussy-whipped = no friends.
and/or
Pussy-whipped = no friends.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:27 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Good Lord. I guess its all perspective. I have 3 dozen friends who I could call right now from anywhere in the country and they'd all find a way to come get me.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:37 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Good Lord. I guess its all perspective. I have 3 dozen friends who I could call right now from anywhere in the country and they'd all find a way to come get me
See I think people who think they have 36 good friends don't really have any. I don't think it's possible to have more than 3-5 good, lifelong friends. I'm talking about people who I'm reasonably certain would lie under oath for me
Sure I have former coworkers and people like that I'd go have a few beers with but I wouldn't call them if I needed anything.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 11:03 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
You'll be shocked if you actually have to call them for something that both requires their effort and is inconvenient for them.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 11:06 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Outside of work, all of my close friends died, so...I guess count me in the 15%.
This post was edited on 6/28/21 at 11:06 pm
Posted on 6/28/21 at 11:17 pm to Paul Allen
Paul, you wish you were as alpha as me and Rummy
Friend request {denied}
Friend request {denied}
Posted on 6/28/21 at 11:21 pm to Paul Allen
You trying to play golf in Fredericksburg this summer? The lady bird course out there is decent. They also have drinking and gambling at the fairgrounds track
Posted on 6/28/21 at 11:38 pm to Winston Cup
Let’s play. Sounds like a good time.
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