Hello, my name is Alexander, I'm 19, I'm from South America. My hobbies are playing videogames, listening to music, working out, reading and watching series or movies. If you want to be friends, chat or have similar interests, message me or reply to this post so I can message you, I'd love to have new friends. Prefer to talk with people close to my age.

So I’ve been friends with this girl for over a year now. We met through a former job I held. We hit it off pretty well and she seemed really nice and down to earth. We would laugh and make jokes and hang out and have our kids interact together. She has a daughter who is the same age as my son. At work we were the “pregnant twins”.

Anyway, after I parted ways from the job we worked at together, our friendship grew. We would tell each other everything and she invited me to her kids birthday parties. We would have a blast and go hang out. Up until recently, things were good but now our friendship has hit a rough patch. I blame myself because she caught me in a stupid lie. I know I betrayed her trust in the act of lying but I didn’t want anyone to know what was going on with me at that time. I was afraid she would tell my other co workers. So that’s why I lied to her.

Fast forward to now, we don’t talk as much online like we used to. We would rant and rave about different topics and make eachother laugh. Nowadays it seems like she doesn’t really wanna talk about anything positive with me. She seems more guarded but for good reason. Now she will put her two sense into everything I say and it makes me feel put down. So I withhold information I want to tell her now. I don’t see this being a true friendship anymore because of the damage my small and stupid lie did to us. She suffers from PTSD as it is so I know that didn’t help the situation.

We have tried talking things over and she told me she’s hurt by my lie and it would take some time for us to mend our friendship. Is it sad that I don’t care enough to mend it? Is it sad to say I’m okay with no friends and to focus on my family instead?

Kinda feeling all alone in the world. It’d be nice to connect with even just one person on some shared interests. I love music, for one. Particularly, lush, beautiful music—like that of the Beach Boys, my favorite musical artist. Like Connie Francis singing “Never On Sunday”, or Maybelle Carter strumming out “Wildwood Flower”, with all those deft melodic flourishes in her fingerpicking. Paul McCartney tapping his wooden shoe along to the perky and lifting “Blackbird”, a precious composition that never fails to make me smile. The sixties is my era, but anything pretty or healing will remain in my memory forever. I love a lot of game and movie soundtracks, too. They were actually my introduction to the world of music, and they remain pretty dear to my heart.

Which is an easy segue to another main interest: video games. Maybe it seems typical for Reddit. But for good reason. The best way I can describe it, is that it’s such a perfect meld of creativity and interactivity. They really are the most marvelous creations, aren’t they? A team of human beings, from a variety of different artistic disciplines, coming together to carve out this believable world—fully explorable, charmingly bound by the limitations of the technology at the time…and yet still managing to painstakingly simulate what makes our own world so vibrant, the things we take for granted everyday. The movement of clothes in the wind, or a ripple atop the water’s surface. They fascinate me, and fill my heart so much... I’d really love to play just about anything with somebody else, games both old and new. I own all three consoles. My current comfort games are MultiVersus and The Binding of Isaac.

I also like being creative, myself. I love singing—it’s one of my primary passions—and I dabble in drawing and writing, too. I have long-COVID and it has sadly affected my voice for three years, but it is finally improving and I hope someday soon my former ability will completely come back to me (though, I guess life gives no guarantees on that sort of stuff)...

Two shows I adore are The Sound of Magic, a Korean series that lands firmly in the realm of my favorite things ever, and Twin Peaks, which won me over with its small-town charm and quirky cast.

So there’s a bit about me. I really hope to find a kindred soul, out there. Life is plenty hard to go through, when you’re mainly by yourself. If we click, and you put in effort, then so will I. But you don’t have to start off with anything fancy. I prefer conversation to start small and then grow organically—so please say hello if any of this resonates with you! And thanks, for making it through to the end of my message. Always try to hold some hope about life, even in troubled times. Our circumstances are always rearranging… And there’s always a chance for some of that change to be in our favor. Life is ultimately such a wondrous and unexplainable experience. None of us were ever guaranteed a place in it. But, here we are. We shouldn’t ever take it for granted.

Hi I am a foreign student in Germany and working a part time job.

Outside my classmates I don't really have friend and don't know how to make new friends either.

I am into Animes, Series and computer games. In my free time I like hiking, going for long night walks and riding my bicycle from time to time.

Looking forward to hearing from you !

Hi my name is Kelley and I am looking for consistent friends!

I'm a 30 year old guy living in London on the lookout for new people to talk to 😊.

I like going out and exploring new places around London. Additionally, I enjoy various sports, working out, cooking, chess, board games, and travelling to name a few. I like to watch the occasional film or show and some of my favourites are (Marvel, Disney, Stranger things, Umbrella Academy, Fallout, and Squid Game to name a few). I also play Xbox, (mainly Dead by Daylight, Disney Dreamlight Valley and Hogwarts Legacy at the moment, but I also have experience in many other games too).

If we have things in common and you fancy messaging me, I look forward to chatting with you :).

Hey folks!

31/M here in North Carolina looking for some new long term friends, especially if you’re down to watch movies or game together. I’ve been going through health issues (preliminary Lupus diagnosis) as of late, and I’m currently on leave from work. Clearly I’ve got way too much time on my hands.

Some of my hobbies:

• Movies, movies, movies! I love to study film history and technique, and will watch anything I can get my hands on. That also means a ton of cool merch - ask me about it!

• Football - go Eagles 🦅🦅!

• Gaming. I have PC, PS5, and XSX with no preference. It’s been ages since I’ve done anything multiplayer but if you’re willing to teach and be patient I’m down to try anything.

• Cooking. It’s my stress relief. You name it, I’ll make it!

• Flea market and thrifting. Who doesn’t love good deals on cool stuff?

• Entertaining my dogs. Apparently me > toys 🤷

Send me a chat with your favorite movie or video game, ideally we will move to another platform to text/voice chat.

Not 420 Friendly. Nothing against you if you are, but it won't work out.

Platonic only, I’m not single

US based only

FYI, I know I have a post history that may contradict my post here, but I just try to overcome any addiction I may have in that sphere now.

So, I graduated in Biochemistry, I study Masters in Medical Laboratory. I enjoy watching series, psychology, hypnosis, random songs, learning languages (learned Italian this summer, giving a try to Russian). I'd like maybe to start going to the gym but I feel really afraid to do that. I'm also into history, WW2, communism or Cold War.

Looking for anime nerds. People who read tons of manhwa. Who like memes and rambling and get excited over silly things. I'm ADHD and autistic so neurospicies get special privileges ✌️ I like crafts too. I can be talkative but I have terrible social skills 😂 I'm from England and English is my first language ☺️ I smoke I toke but I don't really drink 😂 think that covers the intro this feels like Im setting up a tinder account 😂

pls be around my age. I don't actually celebrate halloween but it's fun vibes yknow🎃👍

tldr of some things I like: [ f1, twitch, youtube, watching series and movies, listening to music, playing video games, going to cinema, reading ] 🫶

if u read this far what's your favourite colour?? ✨

I'm 16F and I've been feeling kinda lonely lately haha, been dealing with lots of stuff too, so I'd like to make some new friends!

I like lots of stuff so feel free to talk to me about anything that come to your mind. Though, I love art, music (I've been really into rap lately), fashion and I enjoy watching anime too (I'm currently watching jjk).

The gender doesn't matter and if you want we can also chat on other platforms, it doesn't matter for me! As I said above, you can talk to me about literally anything, or also vent if you need to 🫶🏻.

Text me if you want :)

I’ve been studying abroad for over a year now, and a lot of dramatic things have happened, so I thought I’d share. I have a friend I met back in our home country—we were college classmates—and after graduation, we came to study at the same university abroad. The first semester went well. We all hung out together; even with a lot of assignments, life felt fulfilling and there wasn’t much to be unhappy about. During the second semester last year, we got closer with a group of foreign friends and often went out together. Even though they always smoke weed and drink, we had a lot of fun. It was around then that I met and dated my ex. Meanwhile, my college friend, who had a boyfriend at her hometown, ended up hooking up with a guy in that group, even though they both already had partners. That made me start feeling a bit put off by her because, although we’d known each other for years, she wasn’t exactly a close friend I could confide in. It felt like she was more interested in the details of my life than actually caring about how I felt—more of a casual friend than a real one.

After the summer break, things changed. She seemed only interested in meeting foreign friends, and I felt like I was someone she only reached out to when she was bored. We still saw those friends from the previous year, but recently I found out she’s now with another guy from that group, which I only learned because her first affair had told me. I felt grossed out—she hadn’t mentioned it to me at all and was always making excuses to avoid hanging out with me, when in reality, she was with this other friend. Once I knew, I just started ignoring her, not replying to her messages, and didn’t even greet her at school. My life has felt filled with so much drama lately, from breaking up with my ex to now seeing her involved in a second affair. It might not directly involve me, but as a friendship, I realize she never really saw me as a friend. She’d reach out when she needed something, but whenever she was going out with her foreign friends, I wasn’t invited. Over time, I just saw her more clearly.

In just a couple of months, so much happened that I was constantly on an emotional rollercoaster, nearly breaking down. This past week, I’ve been trying to focus on my own life, which has helped a bit. When I found out yesterday that she didn’t see me as a friend and was once again cheating, I felt both upset and a bit guilty. She probably doesn’t know that I’m aware of all this, and I haven’t explained my distance from her. I don’t want to confront her about it, but I also worry that others might see me as the problem or think I’m giving her the cold shoulder without reason. She might have noticed that I’m less approachable now; even though we still sit together in class, she doesn’t greet me either. She’s become the “pick me girl” of the group, so they don’t really invite me to things anymore. While I consciously stepped back from this toxic circle, not being invited still stings a little. I don’t have many friends here, and sometimes when I need someone to talk to, friends back home are already asleep because of the time difference. Everyone’s busy with their own lives, so I don’t want to bother them with negativity.

What would you all do in this situation? How do you pull yourself out of emotional lows without getting sucked into a spiral? I know I need to learn to enjoy life independently and am trying to focus on new interests, go out more, and meet new people, although they’re more casual friends than anyone I can really open up to. And honestly, despite her being in the wrong, it feels like our foreign friends still stand by her side. Maybe it’s because my ex is part of that group, and I can’t seem to let go of the fact that she’s still close with them.

Sometimes I watch video for some relationships advice to calm myself, and I’m fine during the day, but at night I just want to cry, wondering why things ended up like this. I know I can’t keep letting this get to me, and I’m working on new hobbies, slowly adjusting to life on my own.

Hi! Im 22 guy from Europe, Im looking for long term friends and people to talk with. Im really open and I like to talk about almost anything and everything. When I get comfortable/ click with people, I definitely have a habit of over sharing tho.

In general I would describe myself as chill and funny, I study interior design and architecture, love horror (movies, games, books), I do woodworking, paint and I write. I enjoy cooking and Im fairly outgoing.

What Im looking for is someone who is going to put the same effort into our conversations, is comfortable with talking about more sensitive topics too and is 18+

Anyway, hoping to hear from you!

i have a friend i play gmod with about every week, i feel like i’m the asshole and breaking down the friendship into pieces. he has autism and i have ADHD. every time we play something we get something funny out of it, a clip maybe, but then there’s some days that everything just goes wrong. i always want to open the server. i choose what we play. i feel like i’m restricting him from choosing what we want to do. and the only thing we play is gmod, we already played tf2 a few times, he isn’t the best but he tries, but he doesn’t really like playing it. it stresses him it looks like, i understand that so we barely play that. and then recently we played a half life 2 coop game mode. we kept friendly firing each other so we weren’t doing anything half the time. i feel like i have to do something, give me some advice please.

Hello there!! To keep it short and simple I'm looking for new friends after I ended up leaving an old group. As the title states I'm 22 and have a part-time job that keeps me busy around mid-week.

Overall I'm looking for someone to game with (but straight-up chatting or discussing other hobbies is perfectly fine too!). I've played a few shooters and like RPGs but I'll leave a short list of things I've played below. I'm not looking to be outright 'carried' through these and don't even play a lot competitively, all in all I'm just looking for someone to hang out with. Also if this matters I play strictly on console (PS5) but do have a pc for things like discord and other activities.

-Overwatch

-Destiny 2 (1900 power rank iirc)

-Warzone (new player/not sure if I really like the game)

-Valorant

-Elder Scrolls Online

-Diablo IV

-Baldur's Gate 3

-Warframe

-Predecessor

As for my other hobbies? I'm big into horror, art, and writing! Also a big fan of D&D but I've never actually gotten the chance to play ^^'

Feel free to reach out! I might not reply right away but I'll try to shoot a message back as soon as I can.

Hi all. Back again to have conversation looking to make long term friendship and have good conversation with someone

I am Huge nerd when it comes to card games such as mtg, it's my passion and hobby, really enjoy crafting decks and play casual or competive

I really love movies too, haven't been watching anything with anyone since everyone is always busy but I enjoy all kind of movies. My fav movie is donnie darko watched it over 10x times already lol

I'm just looking for some good long term friendship able to connect with someone who I can relate with and enjoy spending my time with.

Feel free to ask me questions

Greetings to the wonderful members of this subreddit! I’m a European chap in search of amazing people to befriend. I often find solace and joy in nature, spending much of my time hiking, exploring national parks, visiting museums and castles, and enjoying leisurely walks that lead to engaging conversations.

I have a passion for traditional music from various countries, particularly Celtic and Irish, along with country, blues, jazz, and more. If you'd like to get a sense of my musical taste, feel free to ask for my Spotify playlists.

I also enjoy reading books about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Anglo-Saxon England, and linguistics, especially applied linguistics.

In recent years, my interests have broadened to include history, music, geopolitics, and agriculture. Although my full-time profession doesn't fully align with my academic background in history and linguistics (though I’m working on bridging that gap), it keeps me engaged and content.

If this introduction piques your interest, feel free to reach out via chat, comment, or message. Wishing you a lovely day or night ahead!

I feel badly, I don't know how to handle the situation when you feel like you've grown apart from a friend but they still really want to be friends with you or talk a lot or spend a lot of time together? I have a couple friends who I met during a time when my focus and priorities lined up with things we had in common, but I'm in a different stage now. I'd say these things in common are now like fourth on my list of priorities and not stuff I want to spend a lot of time on, and that's been reflected in these friendships as well. I'm beyond grateful for the time we did have together, and I care about these people, I don't ever want to hurt them (which I feel fairly certain saying something direct would do...they're the type to take it as something they need to "fix" about themselves which is shitty, they're great as they are, we're just different now), but I also feel bad about this kinda slow fade I'm doing? It doesn't feel super honest, but I also don't want to hurt anyone with something more direct? I'm also not sure these totally need to end, just for me they be much more comfortable (and honest, for my part) as friends I just see or talk to every once in awhile, or we get together around certain activities that happen from time to time (but both these scenarios are a lot less than what we were doing before). I'm just curious if anyone has experience or wisdom navigating situations like this. I want to be a good friend still, even if I'm a friend on my way out (to whatever extent)?

I'm really just trying to take the temperature of this topic. For some hilarious reason, I place a high value in texting with friends. To me it says, "you're worth my time to spend ten minutes of the week/month texting". And since many of my friends are out of town now, I make an effort, check in on them, text happy birthday bc I keep track of it and not just rely on fb to tell me, yadda yadda. And I just don't feel any reciprocation from them until they need something, reassurance about something, a favor, information.

My gf says she keeps no expectations for her friends, she can go 8 years without talking to someone and pick it right up again. I argued, well, I don't think you were friends during that 8 years then, you're just friends once you see them again. To me thats a relationship of convenience, when i think you should have to put in a little work to maintain a friendship- that's for sure true of spousal type relationships so, why wouldn't a much chiller version of it be true for friendships?

Communication is key, I understand that, no one can read my mind. I have made earnest attempts to make friends aware that our conversing has fallen off real hard only to be told "no I think it's good tho". This topic seems so universal to me that it's bizarre I should have to say anything, we all grew up as kids with hopes of a best friend and watching cartoons of friends get in little tiffs bc Sally didn't check on George when his gf dumped him.

So what's the temp, are friendships best when you have zero expectations of them to do anything to stay in touch? Or do friendships take work to keep alive, and by not doing the work you show how little the friendship means?

Hey my name is Lou and I'm just looking for homies M/F both are welcome I have a discord setup for this as well new people are welcome always (just be chill) age range would be 18+ for the discord so we can be safe about it lol but please dm me if you want the discord. We can also chat here if you want

I’m a pretty open guy, looking to make some new friends as I have more free time than I know what to do with right now.

Feel free to ask me anything and if we click, I’d love to connect on social media.

I have a good friend, whose life has been a mess for a long time. Her and I have been friends for 2.5 years now and have been close. However, she has been unemployed for 6 years now, and she blames it on her lupus.

While I do have empathy for her in that regard, I have a cousin who has both lupus and MS, and she runs her own business, has an additional side business, and raising two daughters. While my cousin has her struggles with the diseases she is living a good life and working hard. My friend however, has almost used that as an excuse for everything wrong in her life and for not working and being broke.

She was living in a luxury high-rise two years ago and because she had ZERO income she basically got an eviction notice because she couldn't afford it. She got her mom to cosign for a new apartment that while not as luxurious as the one she was evicted from, it was still very expensive for someone who has zero money coming in. To put it this way I make $140k a year and she was paying that exact same amount of rent in her new place as I was! Think of it as her downgrading from Mercedes-Benz to a Volvo, when all you can really afford is a bicycle. In my mind I knew that was a terrible idea, but not my problem.

She has lived in this new apartment for a year now, not motivated much in finding something for work, being very picky and not trying very hard to find something. Every week she hangs out at the pool in her building, every week she goes on a date with a different guy. However, she is always broke and could barely afford an Uber ride anywhere. Then this past June, she got an eviction notice from her new apartment.

FINALLY, it seemed to create a wake up call for her and she decided to train and get licensed as an insurance agent. While I was happy that she was making this move to generate income, I was also skeptical, because she wouldn't start making money until 3-4 months down the road, and she had zero dollars in her bank account. IMO she needed a job that would start paying her NOW, like within 1-2 weeks, not 3-4 months down the road. But at least it was something. She was able to borrow money from someone to not get evicted.

Fast forward to this month, she is now getting evicted again, but this time there isn't anyone to help her out, so now she is facing true homelessness. They will also dispose of all her furniture if she doesn't get it out between the next two days, but she has nowhere to go.

On my end, I could help her out financially, but I don't feel comfortable doing so. I feel like it would be enabling her further (that is how she kept moving along is because everyone lent her money). She said to me she owes $300k to different people. On top of that I feel this is all HER doing. Unemployed 6 years? Going on endless dates while unemployed and hanging by the pool? If I had zero income, 100% of my time would be to getting money, not dating, not hanging with friends, not hanging by the pool.

Part of me feels like she has to hit this rock bottom for her to wake up, and bailing her out would not be good. And for the record, I don't have an issue lending people money. My best friend a year ago, I lent her money, but the thing is she works HARD (two jobs) and had a month where she couldn't meet her bills so I helped her. I just lent my father $2k as well. So it's not that I don't help people out. But when I see someone has done so little and made such bad decisions and brought it upon themselves over and over again to be in this position, I feel like that boundary needs to be there and not budge.

Am I being an ass for deciding to not help her? And trust me this is a friendships I have distanced myself from.

Im 32F and very lonely. I need a female friend ti daily chat with and share boring details of life with.

My main hobbies currently is gaming and anime. Some games I’m currently into are League (unfortunately), black ops 6, halo, fortnite, valorant (unfortunately), minecraft and csgo. The main anime I’ve fallen into the pits of is one piece and I’m up to Zou. I can chat on places other than reddit if it’s preferred. I also used to be heavily into baseball and sometimes volleyball.

Hey everyone!

First off, my wife is ok with me being here, so anyone is welcome to chat!

I'm looking for a long term chat person to help the slow moments of my day go by faster.

When you message, why don't you ask a question?

I have a school “friend”, let’s call him bob. Now I really didn’t wanted to befriend Bob, cuz he was one of those annoying kid.I had to because my friend(Adam)started to hangout with him so I didn’t want to be left out. He is just, ahh. Irritating. He just annoys me all day long. 90% of our conversation is him irritating me, sometimes he would only do that all day. He annoys physically and verbally, I hate sitting with him. He makes fun of me being fat(I am not even that much, but he is a thin ass) and sometime also inform of other kids to embarrass me. And cherry on top I don’t know how to reply/insult him, whenever I do he always find a comeback. It’s not that I can’t handle being tease. I have another friend who also does it but I don’t really care as he actually talks and I am happy I spend time with him. Bob just crosses the limit. I think it’s just his shitty personality, cuz he also annoys everyone else near him(not as much as me). He also annoys the same as me to Adam, but he is happy with him?!? Even when writing this, I feel like I am a crybaby, at least internet strangers wouldn’t judge. What should I do, leave him? If I do then it would be pretty awkward as I told before, he spends all the time with Adam so I would be also kinda spending time with him. Please for god sake reply, I need advice and break from this cycle.

So... do y’all ever just lie there at night and think of the most random stuff?? Like, why is “nighttime” even a thing? Why isn’t it just one long day? 🤯 Idk, my brain goes full philosopher mode after 2am, and it’s always the deepest (and weirdest) thoughts. 😂

If you’re a night owl too, let’s hit up those midnight convos – the weirder, the better! 🌃🖤

Just sitting around before I go to work popping meds lol. Hoping to find some ppl to keep me company.

I love gaming, horror movies, emo music, cooking and hiking. I also love reality tv. Cat dad also!

If you wanna chat just send a message!

27m - Hey beautiful people of Reddit!

Hey people, I'm looking for someone nice for a chat. I'm pretty bored. We can chat about anything really, I'm pretty easy to go, just show some effort as well😔 I love gaming, good movies /shows, books, music, also if you're interested in history, I'm here🙋🏻‍♂️ Also I love 40k👀 We can practically chat about anything, send memes, selfies, don't mind voice messages, later we can hop on tele, I don't mind🤷🏻‍♂️👀

If you decide to Dm me and ghost me after, at least let me know 👀

I prefer long-term chats, quick ones are getting boring. Also if you're gamer, definitely hit me up, I'm on Playstation, but we can manage some crossplay as well, always looking for a new game buddies, just mind I'm EU time zone, so yeah.. 🤷🏻‍♂️

PS : try to start with something original or creative, would be appreciated 🤭.. But I'll answer anyway

So yeah, we can talk on Discord too!