Once every couple weeks or so.
once a month or three.
I play DnD with some of my close friends. We also try to get together at one of our houses every once in a while to do “arts and crafts” stuff. Paint figurines, carve pumpkins, gingerbread houses, painting shitty paintings with bob ross. Sometimes we have “scary movie night”, or watch over the garden wall, or a new anime that came out something. Sometimes we’ll go out to do things too, the Zoo, or museums, or a haunted house, or coen maze this time of year. We started doing this after COVID. It seems kinda silly, but having a good excuse to get, like, a half a dozen or so friends together and hang out IRL is honestly great. Sometimes i don’t wanna get up on a Saturday to do it, but I’m always glad I did. It’s hard to come up with excuses to do things in person that aren’t prohibitively expensive, nor infrequent.
I have an active social life but mostly around shared interests, eg book clubs, sports, some activism, etc. Classic friendships not so much, having drifted from childhood friends. Feels like we live in different worlds. My partner has taken that place.
yeah same. i do stuff. i see people. none of them are my friends.
i haven’t had a close regular friendship since my early 20s. mostly because back then we had lots of free time to do nothing but talk about our feelings and shit. once i graduated i no longer had that luxury in life. on the flip side, i was incredibly lonely/depressed most of HS/college sometimes to the point of suicidal thoughts… even though I had many close friends and was socially popular. once i graduated and started spending most of my time alone… i stopped being lonely.
all my old friendships ended because we became radically different people and no longer had any common interests or values. same thing with all my romantic relationships. i never found a partner who wanted to grow or change like I did, so we broke up.
Online pretty much all the time, in real life twice a week, at choir and at band practice. More when there are concerts.
probably once every two or three weeks on average?
40, roughly weekly with high variation (sometimes not for over a month sometimes five in a week)
Amazing to see that some people think virtual counts as seeing your friends more than rounds-to-0%
My friends and I play video games and talk for hours on end, I definitely count it.
40’s. Once every 2 to 4 weeks, sometimes less. As an extrovert, this is killing (figuratively) me.
Are people over 40 allowed to reply? Or is that too large of an age gap?
lol. 41 checking in. What are friends? I’m an introverted nerd. I hang out with computers.
I’m surprised OP has moved on from 21-23 year olds
it says 25+ i would assume anyone older 25 can answer.
OP’s post history is fascinating. You have to check out the modlogs of their deleted posts to get the full story. OP is obsessed with 21-23 year olds dating people over 30. They also seem very conflicted about their stance on it, sometimes defending those relationships and talking about their plans to write a story where the hero is dating an older person, other times saying it’s wrong and asking why such relationships in fiction aren’t called out as wrong, and saying heroes should stop it from happening
Oh, so OP got dumped for an older person and is fantasizing about getting a revenge older partner, and then whiplashing back to irrational hatred of the concept of a moderately age gapped relationship?
If this is the case, statistically, more likely OP is a dude than a gal.
Oh, and below this is another comment saying they’re obssessing over a 25+ yo virgin being worthless.
… Uh, yep, yep, that also fits this scenario.
Oh man, this is that one? I went through their history a couple of days ago when they made one of their weird posts.
Some stuff seems to be missing from the modlogs, I distinctly remember a post about Reed Richards and Sue Storm and their age gap
And then there is the obsession with virginity and being useless if you are one and over 25.
And street racing
You would assume that, but op has an obsession with virginity and the age gap in couples.
Whoa, you weren’t joking
Scheduled friend time. I have a lesbian friend who has never seen Madoka Magica so we do weekly watch parties. My childhood bestie hosts a weekly Twin Peaks watch party and we theorize together. I have a couple friends who my wife and I do D&D with. I also have an autist friend who I churn butter with since that shit is boring af alone.
Idk why but having a dedicated “butter churning friend” is sending me lol. But that’s awesome for you!
The big fall off is around 28-30 when most people are committing to families. After that you’re lucky to see them once and awhile.
once in a while
👍
You mean when I’m not depressed, isolated and withdrawn?
I don’t remember…
Me too except also unemployed… I don’t remember which came first.
You mean at work?
Oh wait, am I supposed to actually see my non-work friends? I thought we just needed to text each other
What do you mean “text each other”? I’ve been thinking of texting one for a long time. That counts too, right?
I have no friends
I don’t have any friends.
I will be your friend, friend.
