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Do you think the older you get the harder is to find new friends?

I mean like to find and look for new friends when you are lets say in your early, mid 40`s or early 50`s?

I mean at that stage people alreayd have grown up kids, married, even they could be grandparents some so the free time is scarce for them to really hang out or socialize with friends, they have their priorities and responsabilities so to find new friends can be tricky and difficult.

This is prety much my case. Im single, never married and I dont have kids but my few friends (they are not so close though, I dont hang out with them often either) they are all married and have kids so of course when they go on vacations is with their families or kids, they can't never go ouyt socially for a local trip "only friends", impossible and when we hang out socially downtown to lets say to get some drinks and mingle each other, first they have to see if they have time available to go out, they can't lets say say yes right away because they have other priorities first and check if they dont have anything organized for that particular day with their kids or husbands. .

At my age finding new single friends is almost impossible, cause at my age people are alreayd married with kids.

The same applies with a male cousin I have. He is 48 separated with two grown up kids. After his separation like 12 years ago, he dated a few women here and then. At this moment he is not seriously with anyone, he does not like to marry in his future again. My male cousin when he was younger he practically had no buddies to hang out socially like any normal male who has their friends group and go out to have some drinks or so. He only had one friend who he met when they were high school classmates like 28 years ago. This buddy always was single, he never married or had kids and he was the same age as my cousin. Even my male cousin friend got distant from my cousin when he went and end up living in the USA for a few years to look for new horizons, but they always remained in touch. Then
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this friend returned to the country when the crisis hit the USA around 2007 and one more time the friends re encountered again. He was the only friend my cousin had, he had no other friends, my cousin mostly hanged out all this life with this only one friend. My friend and this buddy hanged out all the time, to local trips, to bars, etc, they were like brothers cause they knew each other for like 28 years. I was attracted to this guy when I met him 6 years ago
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, cause we were of the same age back then, both of us single, unmarried and no kids.

Anyway my cousins life fell apart, two years ago when his buddy, his BFF of all his life died at the age of 47 of a heart attack. He was really devastated, he mourned like 6 months. But at his age now my cousin he still has no friends at all, his dead friend was his only friend at all. And at his age Im sure it can be difficult to find new single friends out there available. His only friend now is my brother.
Do you think the older you get the harder is to find new friends?
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