How do you find friends without kids ?

Thats the one hobby I don't do, I suck at wood ! I like welding tho

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Bumble BFF?

(fyi I am not sponsored, I've just used these and liked them)

I'm in a similar boat, but I've had good luck with just finding clubs and going through meetup. Even if you only go once or twice it's still something new to do.

Volunteering is always a good option too, gets you out and meeting people and you get to help your community. The parks and food banks especially always need volunteers.

And the last one I'll recommend is an app called Timeleft. It's paid ($20 a month) but you get to basically pick from the events they have and either go for dinner or coffee and meet with 6 random others on the app. I like it because there no pressure, it's not a dating app or anything, and you get to just hang with some open minded people for a few hours and chat. Everyone is identified so there's safety with it, and after each event you get to give out (and receive) little impressions like "Who felt the most welcoming", "who was good at leading conversation", "who was a good listener" etc.

Either way, it can feel challenging sometimes, but the options are out there. And as always, don't be afraid to host something and just throw the invites out, worst case people are too busy but most of the time people want to hang out, they just don't want to plan it.

I'm nearly 43, so at the prime age of struggling to keep friendships alive. Here's what I do - I appreciate I am not exactly a typical person - but also I don't have kids which makes me slightly different anyway.

I do comedy a lot. Helps with making friends.

I also run in a run club

I take classes - comedy/clown (i trained at a clown school instead of going to university), acting, swordfighting, tap dancing, music. Music is usually 1:1 but then I go to comedy and music jams and meet people.

But one can extrapolate to - pottery, painting, robot building, hackathons, book clubs, political groups, conservation, hiking...

Usually I wait til week 2 or 3 and suggest grabbing a bite or a drink before or after class. Do it enough and you just end up with friends who invite you to birthday parties and shit and now you have friends.

And then my wife's friends all have partners and we've formed a HABS (husbands and boyfriends) movie club. We are currently watching a Sylvester Stallone movie once a week.