To wonder if I am missing something (re loneliness)

[honeyroses]

It is a beautiful day here. I would love to do something but I keep hitting the brick wall of having no one to do it with.

I have friends, albeit scattered all over the U.K. and abroad and I work - have two jobs in fact plus voluntary work.

Is it just that at my age everyone is expected to be coupled up and doing things with their families?

How old are you? Do you enjoy doing things alone or would you prefer to be with friends? Do you want to be in a relationship?

You need to approach people you know in advance. So something like hey theres a really good thing happening at x place pn Saturday. Do you fancy going?

I felt like this at one point, I was 28 at the time, I was ready to want a family etc, many already had it. I even and some on ask what was wrong when they found I was not married and never had been and that I wasn't with someone and again hadn't been for sometime, the truth was that until that point I was happy with my own company.
I did marry and have been for 12 yr, I must admit though had i not met him I would have continued happily on my own, doing things on my own and if anyone thought it odd, or that you couldn't do it on my own I'd tell them to get stuffed, I wasn't and still wouldn't miss out just because I'm in my own. If anything did happen in my marriage I wouldn't be interested in meeting anyone else I would stay on my own. I like being married but I also like being on my own, I like doing things as a family but also on my own.
Crack on on your own, still do everything in your own and be happy with yourself on your own, went and if you do meet someone they should then find you good to be around as you will be very happy within yourself, confidant and independent its a huge strength to be able to be happy on your own in my opinion

I feel like this too. I'm making a real effort to get out and do things on my own. It's not the same though. It's much nicer to go for a walk or a coffee with a friend than it is alone. I do have friends but they are always busy at weekends and evenings and I work full time so realistically there's no time to meet up.

No, it isn't the same. I can walk for hours with friends but alone not so much.