Developing new friendships as an adult

Good luck to you too! You are definitely not alone in this! It's hard work as an adult.

I usually develop friendships at work, at least until i leave, apart from that, i do not make friends.

I don't like to rely on work to develop friends. It can be one place to develop friends, but then also it can be difficult to be really friends with people you work with and deal with certain things that happen in business. I've also found that when you leave a job, many friends you found at work are no longer your friends.

I find this too. I think a lot of friendships are circumstantial almost. Once the circumstances change, some friendships can fade away quite quickly unfortunately! Even if you join social groups centred around hobbies etc. I don't think people intend to drift away but it just happens. I think only a few people will stay long term.

I know a fair few people from work but would only class 2 (one who I've known since school but works at the same place) as proper friends. I think I'd lose touch with most of the others pretty quickly if I left!

Totally understand how difficult it is. I actually found that the people I knew from school are still in a pretty close friendship group. In my experience the friends that have stayed together are ones who've known each other for a long time.