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re: When did you stop making 'real' friends?
Posted on 8/22/14 at 11:41 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Posted on 8/22/14 at 11:41 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Early 30's
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Posted on 8/22/14 at 11:42 pm to siliconvalleytiger
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I stopped at age 21 or 22
Posted on 8/22/14 at 11:43 pm to siliconvalleytiger
At around 26.
Ironically, I read an article a few years back saying that making friends 25/26 and after is pretty darn tough.
Ironically, I read an article a few years back saying that making friends 25/26 and after is pretty darn tough.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 11:46 pm to HumongousYeti
I'm 44 and met 2 of my 4 closest friends over the last 5 years.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 11:48 pm to siliconvalleytiger
In my mid 20's.
I have lots of acquaintances now, but not many "real" friends. Everyone is in the same boat. Once you get married and have kids, that takes up your time and separates you from those who are not married. No one who is married really has close friends. I mean, you do stuff with other couples and guys hang out and watch ball games and go fishing and stuff, but it isn't like it was with my friends from high school and college. People are closed up and it just isn't the same.
It used to bother me a lot and I would try to recreate the types of friendships I had years before until a year ago when I just realized that it was pointless. I gave up trying and am more satisfied now just living life as it comes. If I am with someone, we hang out and talk and I don't expect anything from it. So, lots of acquaintances and even some "friends," but no brothers like I had. I am still friends with those guys, but we are spread all over the country now and don't see each other much. When we do though, it is like we were never apart.
It is weird. This is a good thread. Thanks for asking the question.
I have lots of acquaintances now, but not many "real" friends. Everyone is in the same boat. Once you get married and have kids, that takes up your time and separates you from those who are not married. No one who is married really has close friends. I mean, you do stuff with other couples and guys hang out and watch ball games and go fishing and stuff, but it isn't like it was with my friends from high school and college. People are closed up and it just isn't the same.
It used to bother me a lot and I would try to recreate the types of friendships I had years before until a year ago when I just realized that it was pointless. I gave up trying and am more satisfied now just living life as it comes. If I am with someone, we hang out and talk and I don't expect anything from it. So, lots of acquaintances and even some "friends," but no brothers like I had. I am still friends with those guys, but we are spread all over the country now and don't see each other much. When we do though, it is like we were never apart.
It is weird. This is a good thread. Thanks for asking the question.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 11:48 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Weird. I never stop making friends.
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.
Posted on 8/22/14 at 11:58 pm to iluvdatiger
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Weird. I never stop making friends.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:03 am to iluvdatiger
I feel like I'm the same way, but there was definitely a drop after college. You just aren't in a setting to meet so many new people at any other point after college in your life. At the same time, social life becomes slightly less important due to work and other obligations.
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 1:10 am to Scruffy
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Scruffy has no friends.
Not surprising.
j/kPosted on 8/23/14 at 1:17 am to Scruffy
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Scruffy has no friends.
Who needs em when you've got Zero-G Juggs?
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:18 am to imjustafatkid
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When I found TigerDroppings. I blame Chicken.
All of my friends now are from the OT
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:26 am to siliconvalleytiger
I've never had a friend so...
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:33 am to Macintosh504
Why not?
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:37 am to Macintosh504
I'll be your friend. biglego is here for you.
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