I prefer to spend my time alone as I get older. I socialise at work during the week, but at the weekends if I'm not out with the family I prefer to be alone.
I used to be extremely sociable and would have itchy feet if I knew friends were out at the weekend and I wasn't, but since having a long bout of depression a few years back. My desire to socialise never really fully recovered.
I prefer to spend my time alone as I get older. I socialise at work during the week, but at the weekends if I'm not out with the family I prefer to be alone.
I used to be extremely sociable and would have itchy feet if I knew friends were out at the weekend and I wasn't, but since having a long bout of depression a few years back. My desire to socialise never really fully recovered.
It should be better for my age to be honest. Trouble is I moved away from all my good friends a while back due to work and since then have struggled with making loads of friends, mostly due to laziness on my own behalf. Once work is done for the week the last thing I want to do is go to some sort of interest group or club. I enjoy having time to myself anyway.
Over time I've whittled my social life down to 2 good friends and family etc. When you work night-shifts even having time for them can be a damn struggle. I'm working 6 bastard nights this week grrrrr!!!!
I used to have a great social life but it has dwindled over the last few years; partly because I no longer work in the city centre so it's not as easy to meet up with people, and partly because I've taken on a large mortgage which was then followed by a couple of pay cuts so I can't really afford to go out much. I have also become very lazy about going out and keeping in touch with people so I need to sort that out.
I used to have an absolutely packed social life, but is has shrunk a little as I'm past clubbing these days and my one vast circle of London friends has contracted incredibly. And 4 of my very best friends have all sold their homes in the last month (couldn't resist the price madness here) and are moving way out (Brighton and Cambridgeshire), so I'm left with 4 very close friends and the other half.
I still go out Weds, Fri, Sat and Sun evenings though usually to the pub and usually restaurant afterwards. If we all moved out, I reckon there'd be 6 restaurant closures on our High St
A whole week in and not seeing anyone would be my idea of Hell.
I have also become very lazy about going out and keeping in touch with people so I need to sort that out.
Yes - I advise you take affirmative action. I've been lazy with some of my friends and the next thing you know - they're off the radar. Very difficult meeting new friends when you age.
I have a long term illness called Fibromyalgia, this means that I am constantly tired and in pain.
I cannot make plans as I don't know on any given day how I am going to be feeling. I have two best friends, one who lives just next door, so I see her four or five time a week and I see my other friend at least once a week, but this has to be worked around when I am well.
I've never been a party girl, so not been one for being out every weekend getting drunk. I do like to go out for meals and I love a girls' night in, but it depends on how I am feeling.
My favourite way to spend a Friday night is being snuggled up with my husband watching something on tv. There is no better place in the world than in the arms of my hunny
Pretty good. Got a few different groups of mates who I meet up with regularly. Mostly, nights out round town, go to lots of gigs, do a pub quiz once a week, eat out every so often, dinner parties.
I wouldn't like being cooped up in the house for too long without going out/seeing other people.
I live with my other half and 2 mutts in the countryside a couple of miles out of town and a lot of my "problem" could be down to laziness.
Also, being given fairly introverted doesn't help; though I'm not shy around people, I just feel like I have to work a lot harder at appearing normal.
I like doing my own thing though, nothing better than coming up with a good tune or losing myself in a good game on the pc for an hour or two.
Have you sat at home and thought 'I wish Soundbox from DS would call over and brighten my day' or been out and thought 'it must be Soundbox's round now'?
No?
There you go, what is the point of encumbering myself on people who have enough to do? Thats right, there isn't one!
Terrible. I used to go on nights out 3 times a week, but that stopped over a year ago when it got boring. Now the majority of my time is spent doing uni work(final year), and seeing my fiance on weekends as he works away in London on weekdays. I guess ive just grown up now, but i probably should try to get out more.
I go through phases where I go out lots for weekends on end and then all of a sudden just stop, it depends how I feel. Im on the dole so am severely limited in what I can do, I usually go round my best friends house and have DVD nights or if we plan to go out on the town we get pissed at hers before we head out because its cheaper.
I have about 3 best friends who I can trust and I usually hang out with them the most but its not much clubbing or pubbing now its just meeting up in town for a full english or just chill out indoors.
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I used to be extremely sociable and would have itchy feet if I knew friends were out at the weekend and I wasn't, but since having a long bout of depression a few years back. My desire to socialise never really fully recovered.
You've settled down now Alan lol:D
I used to have an absolutely packed social life, but is has shrunk a little as I'm past clubbing these days and my one vast circle of London friends has contracted incredibly. And 4 of my very best friends have all sold their homes in the last month (couldn't resist the price madness here) and are moving way out (Brighton and Cambridgeshire), so I'm left with 4 very close friends and the other half.
I still go out Weds, Fri, Sat and Sun evenings though usually to the pub and usually restaurant afterwards. If we all moved out, I reckon there'd be 6 restaurant closures on our High St
A whole week in and not seeing anyone would be my idea of Hell.
Yes - I advise you take affirmative action. I've been lazy with some of my friends and the next thing you know - they're off the radar. Very difficult meeting new friends when you age.
I cannot make plans as I don't know on any given day how I am going to be feeling. I have two best friends, one who lives just next door, so I see her four or five time a week and I see my other friend at least once a week, but this has to be worked around when I am well.
I've never been a party girl, so not been one for being out every weekend getting drunk. I do like to go out for meals and I love a girls' night in, but it depends on how I am feeling.
My favourite way to spend a Friday night is being snuggled up with my husband watching something on tv. There is no better place in the world than in the arms of my hunny
I wouldn't like being cooped up in the house for too long without going out/seeing other people.
I live with my other half and 2 mutts in the countryside a couple of miles out of town and a lot of my "problem" could be down to laziness.
Also, being given fairly introverted doesn't help; though I'm not shy around people, I just feel like I have to work a lot harder at appearing normal.
I like doing my own thing though, nothing better than coming up with a good tune or losing myself in a good game on the pc for an hour or two.
No?
There you go, what is the point of encumbering myself on people who have enough to do? Thats right, there isn't one!
Non existent. It is a choice between having a social life and saving for my future.
Ild rather have a social life then struggling to save all my life
I have about 3 best friends who I can trust and I usually hang out with them the most but its not much clubbing or pubbing now its just meeting up in town for a full english or just chill out indoors.