I need help creating a friend group in my late 30s
I am a 37 f and I don’t have any close friends right now. I don’t have a single person in my life who I speak with more regularly than once a week. i dont really see anyone at work either, just once a week on Thursdays but sometimes no one is there. I live alone. I’m newer in my city. I keep trying to make friends but after 1-2x hanging out or talking, they stop responding. I never had this problem before to the point where I can’t find anyone to hang out with at all any day of the week. I’m so anxious and depressed bc of the isolation. I don’t have the confidence to go out and be amongst crowds, etc. how do I
1. bridge the gap- I want people to stop not responding after two times meeting
and
2. rebuild my self esteem after a year and a half of this (moved from a big city to a medium city and it’s been like this ever since”)
3. when I ask people if something is wrong they usually say no but never reach out and don’t respond to requests for plans or just don’t respond at all. no one will tell me what I’ve done wrong. so how do I even figure that out? #relationships source