With whom do you socialize?

[georgeharrison]

Just thinking about this. We aren't very social people, so I don't consider this much, but we really have such a small circle that we socialize with. They are nearly all from church. Tman's school is part of our church, so that doesn't add to our circle. Tman use to go to a co-op preschool and I have some mom friends from there that I have kept in contact with and get together with on occasion. I also have a couple friends from when I use to work that I get together with sometimes, but we live far away from each other and all have families so it's hard. I went to college out of state, so my friends from there are scattered. We still keep in touch, but almost never see one another. I see KWPN occasionally since we live close (and she was awesome and has tman and me over for dinner when we were displaced when we had our fire), but I have never met any of the rest of you.

SO, it just got me to thinking where others find their friends.

[Deleted]

R and I have a very small group of people that we socialize with and even then it's only for Sounders matches and the occasional movie. We both suck at making new friends and finding people that we could hang out with more.

[joenali]

People on my triathlon team for sure, I live hanging out with them. Hard working but know how to have fun. We also hang out a few people from my old work and dh's work as well. I would still consider it a small social circle. We mainly like to be at home.

[Deleted]

Most of our core group of friends are from hs (or earlier) and college. There are a few work friends that we each picked up a long the way, but the people we hang out with most are from back in the day.

[Deleted]

I really want to socialize more but I'm not good at getting out there to do it. My MIL keeps suggesting that we find a church we like to go to and make friends there. Neither of us are very religious and I'm very intimidated by the churches on the Island and don't know the best way to go about finding one we like.

[InBetweenDays]

My core group of friends are people I've known from when I first moved out here - so I've known them for 10-12 years now. Within the past few years we have also started to socialize with families from daycare, and now school. As well as a few coworkers.

[Deleted]

We go through spurts of socialness, July was crazy busy, and then get burned out and are anti-social for awhile. However, our circle that we actually do things with is rather smaller than we'd like it. Our "core" group is actually several of H's friends from college plus someone who is the sister of a former coworker. Our secondary group is friends we made at our previous employ (where we met and started dating). I only truly have one friend from college times thanks to some rather awful circumstances right after and then one current coworker. We have extended "friends" off my college friend. However, when it comes to actually doing anything, we do stuff with other people less than once a month. It's really sad and kind of pathetic. :-( I :heart: my Nexties though, y'all have given me a different group of friends, which I've really enjoyed and appreciated.

[llh0211]

Mostly either high school friends, or people I met through work. I do have a couple close friends I met through the Phoenix board on TN. As far as seeing on a regular basis, due to distance, it's usually 2 girlfriends from high school, a couple work friends, and family.

[Deleted]

I forgot, we do have one other couple that has 2 little girls that we hang out with occasionally. They are really nice but they have an issue with FIL being gay so we don't do too much with them.

[karebear219]

Most are H's are HS friends. A lot of mine are from the place I worked while in HS and college. That's about it.

[madDawg228]

H and I are in our late 20's, and have no kids (and only have 1 set of friends w/1 kid), so we are pretty social. We both have 1 friend from HS who live far away, and we see them 1 or 2 times a year. We both went to UW and live in Seattle, so most of our friends we usually hang out with are from college. We hang out for football games, UW basketball games, a handful of Mariner games, weddings, birthdays, random non-religious holidays and dog play dates (a lot of the couples have dogs).

[jennlin]

Most our friends are work-related, but not necessarily coworkers. For example, our closest "core" friends we met *through* a coworker (they were room mates at the time). NYC bff was a former coworker of h's, a lot of our current day-to-day friends are coworkers of h's. He's better at making work-friends I guess. I have a few work friends, but nothing lasting too long or deep.

Our "core" group, they mostly went to college together, and we're the outsiders, but have been very much accepted into the group.

We have also very good relationship with our (non-crazy) neighbor, who had a "core" group (from college) we've also been accepted into. One of my HS friends is now dating someone from "their" group.

We have about 2-3 people on each side from our HS days, and 1 or 2 tops from college.

[FrozenSunshine]

We socialize most with a couple of DH's coworkers. I have one girlfriend from my previous job that I see once or twice a month for drinks.

We're not from here, and DH, although the manager, one of the youngest people in his organization, so most people have established families, etc..

DH and I kind of like each other and hang out a ton together.

[mkate710]

We have an odd assortment of friends from college, church and work. Some of the groups have intermingled.

Sounders, FWIW, my folks go to a church on the island that meets sunday mornings at the high school. It's pretty laid back and everyone is friendly - I hadn't been there in several years the last time we went, and my parents arrived after us, so like 5 different people sitting near us assumed we were new and walked over to introduce themselves and invite us over for lunch, not knowing who I was. I know it's intimidating at first, but I know my friends who have kiddos find church in general to be a good place to meet other parents of young kiddos. If you're into that sort of thing.