For people who see their friends very often, how so?

[buzzheath]

Just curious about others' social lives! I see a lot of people on here saying they see friends several times a week. I'm sure it depends on which stage of life you're in, your work, etc, but just interested to know which friends they are, how you know them (i.e. is the socialising combined with work or a particular hobby?) and how you fit it in.

Going to make serious attempts to improve my social life in the new year so looking for ideas!

I never see them but I talk to them all the time. texts about our days etc and phone calls when we can. sometimes just a 10 minute call when walking home

I have long-standing friends I know just through “life” - people I met through other friends, at parties, at Burning Man, through DH etc who I’ll see a couple of times a week because we all work in the City or surrounds and try to align our office days so we can get lunch or after work drinks together. I have two women friends who I met at the gym and now work out with a couple of times a week and then get coffee afterwards. I turned my neighbour into my friend, so we see each other all the time, even if it’s just a spontaneous trip to the pub across the street of an evening. I suppose it’s just about whether you want to prioritise friendships and how much energy you have to do so.

And I also think it helps that we have a lot of couple friends i.e. people who are equally mine and DH’s friends and that a lot of our friends are also friends with each other - so we’ll all go out to dinner together, over to each other’s houses, on day trips, on holiday together etc and there aren’t the same competing pressures as I imagine there are if you have to decide whether to hang out with your friends, and which friends at which time, or with your spouse etc