Since you make a lot of money (and apparently you’ve saved some of it) and since your lease is up in August, why not quit your job about a month before the lease is up? Why not take a month-long trip somewhere you’ve never been before? I’m not sure whether the best thing to do would be to travel around by yourself or to get into a tour group. But by the time you get back, you’ll be refreshed. You might find that you’ve found a new place that you’d like to live. You might find a new person that you want to live with. If so, your lease will be ending just as you get back, so you can move immediately if you want to.
Are you talking about the “Biggirl is a horrible person!” thread??? You didn’t think we were serious, did you? Omigod! ROFLMAO!
That was purely in jest! After we poured a couple of beers into Biggirl, she confessed that she felt like she hadn’t really “arrived” at the SDMB because she had never had a Pit thread devoted to her. So, I was happy to oblige, and being the in the Pit and all, I had to flame her. She’s about the least horrible person I have ever met!
Lswote,
I’m sorry to hear about your problems with lonliness. I know what it’s like, though not having friends isn’t a part of my problem. It’s not having a ‘special’ friend that bothers me. So much of the world seems to be for couples and when you aren’t a part of that, you can be left out of a lot of social gatherings. I’m not comfortable going out on my own, so I go out with friends, but seldom are we approached by men. In this area of the country, there seem to be more single women, then single men.
There are any number of good suggestions in the posts above; and luckily, you are not hampered by a lack of funds to try some of them.
No one has mentioned having a pet as a good way to combat lonliness. It may not be a cure, but I’ve found that having my dog to greet me when I get home from work helps a lot. No matter what my day has been like, my dog is always glad to see me when I get home and that can really brighten my day.
I hope that things get better for you. I think you are in my age group…I’m 43, and it can be difficult to meet someone at this age. I’m considering moving to a larger metropolitan area for just this reason. My expenses would be greater, but hopefully, my pay would increase proportionatly.
Have a really good weekend. learae
I am very curious to know how a software consultant would know how to change engines in a pick-up,lswote.Surely your life is not as dull as you would have us believe.
Well I’d like to say that my heart bleeds for you, but I can’t. I see too many people out here with piss poor jobs that just can’t get their foot in the door of a good company. Bright, intelligent, college people. As far as being lonely, that’s your fault. There are too many things in this world to do to sit around and mope. Sorry about your physical condition. I know this is a couple/group oriented society. But more and more you are seeing single people out alone enjoying themselves just site-seeing, or movies. I will not let myself be pressured into a relationship merely to please society. I enjoy being single, I doubt I ever remarry, and I go where I want to when I want to, or I’d be doing the alternative, which is what you are doing.
Get shaking, guy. You can talk about, post about, all you want to, but you are the only one that can do something about it.
If you don’t like any of the aforementioned suggestions, you could always fund my husband’s film–that way you could be on a movie set, meet many interesting people, have a film with your name in the credits, and generally, do stuff that other people wish they could do!
