To wish i had a friend

[sanddune11]

Just that really, i have a few casual type friends, but no one who i'm close to. Sometimes i just wish i had someone who i could confide in when i'm down. How lovely that must be.

I've requested to join!

I've requested to join too please!

Ok, thanks I'll send a request.

I can't find it ☹. Oh well. Never found making friends easy. Not really sure why. Sometimes I think I'm just not in the right place at the right time but maybe I'm just unlovable. 🙃

Good idea, I've requested to join too.

What's the group called please? I can't find it.

I can’t find it either but would like to join

Me too please!

Search chuMNs then go across to groups then it comes up. 5 members when I just looked

I can't find it either . When I search and look in groups there is one called chumns with 3 members set up 6 years ago. I'm guessing that's not it.

You need to do the capital MN

I’ve found it now, and requested to join.

I think I've found it and requested to join. Lots of circumstances seem to of left me lonely. Poorly child, living in a cliquey area. Being a sahm, Anxiety etc. Now I have no idea how to make friends at my age. I promised my self this year would be different, now it's nearly over and it's not lol!

Found it and requested to join!

I have also requested to join, hope that is ok - I am not a parent.

Feeling the same here also.
I'm self employed, mostly Internet based and can go weeks not speaking to anyone in person other than the kids and the local shop.

At school I was always part of a big group but always the quieter one at the back of the group, never the popular loud one.

Since leaving school we moved about quite a bit and then I left my ex and had to leave everything behind.

The community I now live in is one of those people where if you aren't born and bred in the area you are not one of them (even though my family have been in this area since at least early 1800s )

Kids all in secondary school so no school run, no community centre etc.

I hate it and I'm totally fed up.

I have people I chat to on Facebook who I used to live near but no friends.

Going to try to find you on FB now! I'm not very FB literate as I rarely use it so here goes...

Found you!

www.jaceyverdicchio.com/3-conditions-for-friendship

this is helpful. You basically need to engineer these 3 factors then enjoy people's company.

I’m enjoying this site. Not surprising as I love using Facebook.

Same here. But I've accepted things now. I am just too weird for most people and who has time to dig away my layers?

I feel the same. I used to have quite a few very close friends the got married and moved abroad and they don’t want to know anymore.

I have friends here but it’s a different culture and nobody I can really talk to. It’s really lonely.

Goodness me! There are so many of us who feel lonely and/or friendless. In my case, I have always had problems making friends. I am not anti-social, just quiet, so I have got used to the situation.

I feel the same too. I feel worse as my slightly younger sister has tons of friends. She has spa days with them and their sibblings but not me. I've requested to join.

I would like to join too, I have casual Mum friends I met via baby groups but no real firm friends anymore x