It's not like I don't have friends. I do. It's just that as I reach middle age there are fewer of them and they seem to exist mainly on WhatsApp! Happily or unhappily coupled friends are rarely available for a good old face to face, which means when I do see them it's like our shared experiences are frozen in time, unchanged and not enhanced by shared new events and memories. It's depressing! Nobody wants to make the effort to do anything different or go somewhere new. People just say 'oh, not this time. Come to us again if you really want to meet up!'. It's relentless deja vu!
For me, friendships in middle age just seem to have fallen into a stagnant ditch that mostly exists only on messaging apps where you struggle to get more than a four word message every 4 months regardless of how much effort you make! I now seem to have an address book full of pen-pals and zero social life!
Has anybody else had this problem?
For me, friendships in middle age just seem to have fallen into a stagnant ditch that mostly exists only on messaging apps where you struggle to get more than a four word message every 4 months regardless of how much effort you make! I now seem to have an address book full of pen-pals and zero social life!
Has anybody else had this problem?
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