@JaneOnceMore - It sucks that they brought up the age difference. I'm sorry about that. I having a lot of difficulty making close friends too, but you do better than I do, at least you put yourself out there and try to socialize. The older I get the more & more I just want to stay home and not socialize or anything. Yesterday, we were all invited to a birthday party for one of my daughter's friends. Just a small thing at their house but I didn't want to be social at all and stayed home. Hopefully, they understand as H told the couple long ago that I have bipolar. I just feel so awkward in social situations, anxious, I don't know. I only made one good friend when I was in college, and now she lives on the east coast and we haven't seen each other in 15 yrs. or so.