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I'm 36 and currently in the process of figuring out how to make new friends.
The few that I currently have are mostly married and have kids.
They're with the same girls they've been with since they were 18, toxic relationships where most of the time they just hate each other, no love, no sex, but instead of ending it they're trying to fix it with kids and marriage.
It just boggles my mind so much. They're all normies with good looks, jobs and shit like that, none of them would have problems finding someone else to be together with, yet they choose to be this miserable. One of them is currently trying for his next child, for the sole purpose of getting to have sex with his WIFE. What the fuck.
Noone has time to hang out in person anymore, all we can manage is 1-2 hours a evening where we sit in voice and play PUBG or some shit. They're already stressed, sleep deprived and mad and try to fix all this with some *competitive* vidya. SURPRISINGLY 1 hour per evening isn't enough to get gud at stuff like this so most of the time some 14 y/os simply outplay us. Which is fine by me, I've played enough League to know that sometimes someone else is just better at the game than me. And hey, we even reach first place from time to time. But these grown-ass men procede to lose their shit, yell at each other how much they suck or accuse everyone else of cheating. Until someone just ragequits and the group dissolves. Next day the same shit, again and again.
I just can't take it anymore, I don't want to get sucked into this toxic shit every time I want to play some videogames with my friends. I do not have the energy for this. I stopped going into voice, playing with them or even texting them.
It's just so hard cutting ties since I've known them since forever, because of all the fun times we had in the past, and also this is basically my whole circle of friends. But I've decided I'd rather be by myself than keep watching them get more miserable by the day.
