One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Do you consider yourself a woman who makes friends easily? Do you have many friends that you pal around with or are you more of a “best friend” who has one great friend?
Throughout my life, I’ve always considered myself more outgoing than shy. However, after having kids, moving, and starting over in a new area I have found myself in a new place…it’s harder to make friends as an adult! Between trying to keep our household running and being a good wife to my husband, I’ve found myself in a new place, not much time for new adventures and even when I do have time, where do you meet new friends?
I’ve noticed that many adult friendships are formed around groups you are already in. Bible study, women you work with, and women you meet at the gym can become friends. You can also make friends with the moms at dance class or sporting events that you get to know while waiting for your child. If you are a parent, many friendships begin because of your kids. The kids make friends and you become friends with their parents. (I have been really lucky that our kids’ friends have some really great families.)
We were made to be sociable people (even if we’re shy). Friendship is important! Friends keep us laughing, share important milestones, and help us work through problems. They offer support during hard times. Part of living a healthy, intentional life involves making and maintaining healthy friendships.
So my question for you is, how do you make time for your friendships? Are you spontaneous? Do you plan out a few times a month that work to get together? My goal today is to offer encouragement to the woman who is searching for new friends, to give her ideas of places to meet friends and ideas of what to do when you are together.
Do you find it hard to make new friends? What encouragement do you have for the other women reading this? For those of you who have a great friends group, how did you meet and what do you like to do together? Please share your tips!
Have you enjoyed what you read here today? Do you have friends or other women you know that could benefit from this resource? If so, please do me a favor! I have included the links below to share with other intentional women! They’ll be glad you did!
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I am an introvert, and it is hard for me to reach out and make new friends, but I have found as I have gotten older, that I make an effort. I am nice. I am interested in what others do, and I try to show it. I remember things about them and follow up. When I do those things, it helps create friendships. Even though I may not be “close” or go off for long weekends with my buddies, I do have some good friends.
I moved to a new city almost two years ago and never more have I felt it so difficult to make friends. I write a bit about it on my blog, because I consider myself someone who makes friends relatively easily. It takes work and effort, but of course it’s worth it. Enjoyed the post. 🙂
Dropping by from the SITS share.
Making friends has never been easy for me and now we move often and my boys are grown so that makes it even harder. Although they don’t live close by me right now in San Francisco I’m blessed to have a few friends I’m extremely close with and my amazing sister! Friends are extremely important in your daily life. I was recently introduced to the app called MeetUp and am tempted to give that a try. Thanks for sharing!
Visiting from SITS Saturday Sharefest!
I switched states 4 months ago and had decided to stay home a year for certain reasons but it has been more difficult than I thought! I am now looking for a job because I cannot live without friendships. I usually am good at making friends, but this hasn’t happened due to a lack of opportunities. Hope a job helps! Nice post 🙂
Blogging has brought me some new friends–none that I am super close to though. Need to work on that!