Do you call the people you do meet and want to be friends with to go "do" something? How about any of your kids' friends parents or other parents from their activities?

Some people are really friendly so they attract friends. My daughter-in-law is like that and makes me jealous :-) My stepsister has loads of friends she's kept from her soriority in college, nearly 50 years ago -- married her second husband a couple years ago from that college group that was all interdating (he'd married a soriety sister of hers who had died and my brother-in-law had died) and having friends like that (they still have "pot luck" dinners together and a large group of them were at the wedding (I remembered them from when I was 6 years old so couldn't figure out why my sister was hanging out with all these old ladies, I've never seen her as getting older :-) and I'm a bit jealous of that situation too.

I asked my husband to move to townhouses like we're in now hoping being more close together (we had a large suburban rambler with an acre of land) and having more people "around" might help and it does a bit in the back yard where we all hang out in the summer in the evenings but hasn't gotten me a "friend" to hang around with :-(