35M married and wife is pregnant with our first kid. My wife and I love hanging out with each other but lately we can’t help but also feel lonely in that our social lives have dwindled down to almost nothing. Since I graduated college I’ve been working with my immediate family. We run a large company together and over the past 13 years, although financially successfully, have all grown to nearly resent each other from the stress. Family and Work are usually touted as two of the main channels from which one can maintain a social circle and I can’t help but think both are forever eviscerated for me. This leaves my remaining social circle from growing up and college. The growing up friends and college friends buckets have both almost entirely blown up over the last 18 months. Falling outs, acknowledging people have completely changed, and other life circumstances have left me with just a couple people I could contact on a whim. Without having people at a job or even my family to socialize with or confide in (outside of my wife) I feel very uneasy. My wife on the other hand is from another country and moved here about ten years ago. We started dating a couple years after she arrived. She’s in the same situation in that she has literally zero family here in the US in addition to working for herself. She has very few friends remaining as well, just a few old roommates and people she studied with many years ago. Lastly, while my wife and I do get along great, my wife inherently does have cultural differences from people who grew up here and it’s not terribly easy for her to relate with people on a very close level. We plan to work together to make friends with other parents as we welcome the next phase of our lives as parents. I’m hoping to just hear from others about if you found yourself in a similar situation and what you did to improve your social life (successfully) and any tips that worked for you. Thank you. submitted by /u/Time_Worth_6818
Originally posted by u/Time_Worth_6818 on r/AskMen