Make More Friends – A Women’s Path to Companionship & Happiness
Sunday, October 24th, 2010If you’re looking for friendship websites or friendship tips that can help you meet more people and make more friends, then I’m glad you’ve found my blog because I was just in your shoes one year ago.
Being an introvert who spends most of her time with books, music and foreign literature, it was a bit hard to make women friends because I tend to keep things to myself.
I mean I’m not the type of outgoing girl who regularly go shopping or hanging out in bars/clubs. I don’t read gossip magazines at all and I don’t like to watch “sex and the city”.
Last June, I got out of a 3-year marriage and moved to Seattle. It wasn’t a good marriage by standards and I had enough of my ex-husband. So I took a new job and wanted to leave everything behind to have a fresh start at things.
It wasn’t really easy because I was totally new to the city and I had no relatives or friends in town. For a few months I didn’t have much of a social life. While in the office I managed to get acquainted with a few colleagues but that’s as far it went, people kept to themselves in the office due to the job’s semi-competitive nature. (I was a sale representative).
I was awfully lonely at that time & really wanted someone to hang out with. Being the introvert that I was, I decided to make a change and aggressively expand my social circle.
One year later, I have several groups of good friends that I hang out with regularly and we have really fond friendships. We’ve had our share of fights & making ups, we went through tough times with each other on the side, and we shared memories full of touching tears and laughs.
I finally watched “sex and the city”, and I’m glad that the kind of the friends I made are just like those in the show if not better. Having true friends instead of “frenemies”is a really valuable fortune that I wouldn’t trade anything for.