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I am 28. I recently lost a couple friends, as I realized it wasn’t good for me. I’m okay with being alone for now if it means finding good friends later. They were female friends, and I haven’t had close male friends since high school and college because I work in graphic design in the beauty industry so I just met more women. I started a new job but everyone is my mom’s age. They are nice and all but of course not exactly that kind of friendship. I go to the gym but I have no idea how to even begin friendships there. I’m new to the gym, so I just don’t know the culture. How do friendships even form? At work there’s this one guy I see who’s my age, the only one. I only know cuz we park in the same area so I see him every day but we don’t work on the same floor so I don’t see him at any other time. But he’s the only one my age/younger. But again super awkward like how would you even start a convo, we don’t even technically work together. I don’t know I’ve never done this before cuz a lot of my in person friends were made through sharing my content online and then getting invited to parties by people who already knew me from that. And before now all my hobbies were also the kind that are done alone, and I was working remotely too. But now I’m out of the house at the gym, and I work 5x a week in person, so I have opportunity to make friends the “real” way but realized I really have no clue how to do this. submitted by /u/Southern_Bit_8243

Originally posted by u/Southern_Bit_8243 on r/AskMen