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Making new friends

  • 12-06-2011 4:12pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Well im looking to make new friends but i don't know how to. How do people do it? Just some friends to go out with every once in a while.

    I grew up with a very strict mother who never allowed me to go to friends birthdays, parties, events, anything. Even a birthday party for a 7 year old, i wasn't allowed to go to. When secondary school started and people were going out to discos, i wasn't allowed to go. I went through all of school not ever going out with friends. The problem was i never lied to go out with them. When school finished, that was it. I never saw them again.

    I went to college and that was hard too. Made some friends during the first year of the course but they dropped out and never came back for second year. I was too broke to go out also.

    I then started work. There was about 12 of us on the shift i was on. They would organise to out over the weekends. They never once asked if i would like to join. I felt very left out. As a quite person I wasn't going to force myself into their night outs and ask can i come. I wasn't asked, so that was it.

    I moved to a new city and back in college over the past year and this year I have made friends and went out a couple of times. But once college ended, that was it.

    And as for my loveless life? I have no none. I'd like to meet someone but i dont know where. Im not getting out there and i dont know how. I tried the internet dating and that just wasn't for me. I would much prefer to make friends first and seeing what happens.

    So how do people do it? I must also say that now im on a budget as im on the dole, so things/activities that are free or cheap to meet people?


Comments

  • #2
    the west wing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭the west wing


    What are your interests? A lot of clubs are free. I moved to Dublin at the start of the year and knew no one. I'm also on a really tight budget so I looked for clubs that were going on in the city. I've joined a couple of bookclubs (which work out very cheap if there is a good library near you) and then that had introduced me to other activities.


  • #3
    Neyite
    Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    If you check the forum local to your area under Region on the menu above you might see a thread for boards meet ups. Lots of people on here have gotten to know each other through boards posting on forums of interest to them, then by the time a meet up is arranged you already know the people who are gonna be there, just meeting them in person.


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