New friends

[Mylippy]

I would love to make new friends been let down by what I thought as besties twice now it hurts I’m 57 is it to late to have a bestie

It’s never too late to make new connections with people!

I’m a little younger than you, but have looked at some of my friends at times and been a bit jealous that some have lots of close friends while I have hardly any.

My current best friend is someone who I’ve now been friends with for 25 years, but during that time we’ve not always been besties, she has a lot of friends. I’ve also re-discovered school friends who have become good friends, and have some friends who I can pick things up with easily, but I don’t see often.

Do you do any hobbies that you can meet people through? Or anyone who considers you a bestie even though you don’t realise it?

Do you have lots of “not-best” friends?

It’s not too late, but no one starts off as an instant ‘best friend’. You will need to make lots of new acquaintances, some of whom may in time become your friends, and one or two of those you may become close to. It will take time.

How are you getting on @Mylippy? I
have a few friends and acquaintances and some friends are better or perhaps less ‘fair weather friends’ than others but I don’t have a ‘bestie’ as such but I could always do with more good but low maintenance friends.

Recently, I have felt down by a few friends. Say for example today we had made plans to meet up for coffee and a catch up early afternoon (myself and two friends). Now I have prioritised these arrangements as I enjoy seeing these friends when we get together. I remembered the date and I purposely arranged to fit other things around this date (running around like a headless chicken yesterday) only to find out this morning when I messaged to confirm where we were meeting at that both of these friends have made other plans and I have been let down last minute on the day. This isn’t the first time this has happened and we all have a lot of different things going on in our lives. But I really wish they had cancelled ahead of the day rather than my finding out on the day that I wasn’t a priority and its now too late to make other plans at such short notice on a Tuesday.