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Originally Posted by The Skeezyks
Hello Wolfatheart: I'm so sorry to hear of your plight. I don't have any friends either. But I'm much older than you are, I am married & I do have acquaintances. My wife works full time & so I'm alone all day 5 days a week. I spend almost all of this time on the internet. And, over the past 2 years or so, I've made many wonderful internet friends. I know it's not the same as real flesh-&-blood friends. But it helps. (I've also been down the suicide path, so I know what that's about too.)
That's probably not of much help to you. But I thought I'd at least mention it. Oh, & the other thing, I guess, would be that I have a dog & he & I walk around our neighborhood everyday. On our walks we often run into other dog walkers & often dog walkers like to stop & chat with other dog walkers. So I chat with the dog owner while their dog & my dog get to know each other. This is another thing that helps.
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At least you are married. I've come to realize that I never will be. It's really hard because despite my social anxiety, I really am a social person and enjoy being with people. I was so much happier when I had friends. Any friends I have now are online and live too far away (one lives in Washington state, two in Canada, and another in the Netherlands).
Our family has a dog - a Dachshund - but he's much too old to really go on long walks any more (he's seriously about to turn 19 this summer) so that's not really an option either :/
It's getting to the point where sticking around for my parents' and sister's sakes aren't really cutting it.