Oct 21, 2007, 10:56 AM
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Oh, how I feel for you...
My wife and I are in the same boat as you are right now! We're both from really small towns close to where we live now. We moved into the big city about a year and a half ago to get away from that small town life and all the people in it.
All of my friends are those "sit on your ass and play World of Warcraft and Halo all the time" kind of guys. Not that there's anything really wrong with that but we can never get them to go anywhere with us. And my wife literally hates all her friends from high school now, all of whom have let her down in some way recently.
So after we moved up here, we sat out to find new friends. Ones that we could hang out with up here and not have to drive 35 miles back home to hang with. Oh my god, that failed miserably. We've tried going to clubs, to coffee shops, to the mall...you name a place we've been there. Every time it just seems like everyone else is off in there own little world talking to other people and it almost feels rude to interrupt, you know? And waiting for someone to talk to you is pointless because most of the time it's like you are invisible. We would go to a club and literally sit in the corner together and just watch other people walk by. They had a halloween party last year that was absolutely wicked awesome, but that's all we did the entire time(we were dressed up and everything!).
To make matters worse, my wife gets real anxious around large groups of people. While that doesn't bother me, I end up feeling bad for her after a while and we'll just leave to get her out of there.
Needless to say, we STILL don't know anyone up here almost a year and a half later and so every weekend we load up the car and head back home to hang out with my goofball friends. And we all sit around and play video games and get drunk the whole weekend.
Anyway, the point of the story is that your not alone. While I can't really help you with a way to fix it, atleast maybe you read this and it made you feel a little better knowing you weren't the only one.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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