making new friends when older

onlyroz

If you're over 50 I've heard great things about the U3A.

FBaby

Making new friends is possible at any age, I've just found that it takes longer though. I've made many new friends since my 30s and into my 40s, but these came sharing common activities over weeks. Work colleagues who I got to know better, gym classes bodies who I would only just acknowledge to start with, but then gradually started to say hello and then made conversation, parents of my kids' friends etc... I have found that some people you click with right away and then you know they could make good friends.

duchy

I do think as you geet older it does take more effort and often needs more common ground.

Anything where you have a common interest is a good start - and conversation flows better when you have something to talk about that you know you have in common whilst discovering if there are other things too .

I belong to a very large group with a common interest -some of the people within it have become wonderful friends others are and always will remain aquaintances because we either have completely different attitudes to life -or in a few cases they are simply not nice people and I wouldn't ever want them as friends but without that common interest I'd not have got to meet any of them to find out.

Friendship however is like a plant -water it , feed it and give it attention it'll florish - neglect it and it'll not grow or even wither away.

pigpen

onlyroz wrote: »

If you're over 50 I've heard great things about the U3A.

OH's mother (70) goes to her local one and loves it... ours is rubbish here but she has made loads of new friends there.. as well as church and the knitting group she goes to.