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Posted: 9/17/2022 10:31:44 PM EDT

[#1]

Yep, ever since 40 I’ve grown to dislike socializing. I’m over 50 now and that hasn’t changed. I spend almost all of my personal time with my wife or grandson. I’m also perfectly fine being alone and tinkering with something. I wasn’t always like this, but nothing is wrong. I’m way more content with life than I was in my 20’ and 30’s with all the socializing and partying.

Posted: 9/17/2022 10:33:02 PM EDT

[#2]

I disliked people at 20

Posted: 9/17/2022 10:33:16 PM EDT

[#3]

Yup. Happened quick for me.

Posted: 9/17/2022 10:36:56 PM EDT

[#4]

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Posted: 9/17/2022 10:41:40 PM EDT

[#5]

I’ve worked hard to get my shop, fun car, and cabin/shooting range to the point where I don’t have to talk to anyone. I moved to a job where I’m working from home most days.

I really only like hanging around with my wife and kids, my dog, and 2-3 close friends and their families.

Posted: 9/17/2022 10:47:15 PM EDT

[#6]

Can't stand to be around people.....the sound of wind blowing in trees is enough.

everything needed to be said...has been said....time for quiet.....

Posted: 9/18/2022 12:03:11 AM EDT

[#7]

Now I only have patience for women, attractive, that are much younger than me.

Posted: 9/18/2022 12:12:12 AM EDT

[#8]

11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands,(U) just as we told you, 12 so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders(V) and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

Posted: 9/18/2022 12:16:12 AM EDT

[#9]

Yes and no. I'm just fine being a hermit but I don't mind and am good at socializing. I just don't really seek it out. I get enough of my fill of socializing at work.

Posted: 9/18/2022 12:31:31 AM EDT

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Haven't trained in a while. Been in a funk and working 70-80 hours a week.

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Posted: 9/18/2022 12:32:05 AM EDT

[#11]

I'm 39 and I've been there a long time.. I hate everyone... equally

Posted: 9/18/2022 12:40:20 AM EDT

[#12]

Absolutely. Over the years I've narrowed my circle of friends quite a lot and have found that there's so much less drama in my life than there used to be. I used to be a massive extrovert, but now I just want to chill and enjoy myself and be left alone most days.

Posted: 9/18/2022 12:42:40 AM EDT

[#13]

I am become asshole in my wife's family. And I don't care.

Posted: 9/18/2022 12:44:42 AM EDT

[#14]

Yup

Posted: 9/18/2022 12:49:44 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/18/2022 12:57:00 AM EDT

[#16]

Family and a few friends, like one friend. Garage. Fishing. I took a fellow worker fishing last week. He was cool. Vietnam vet. He had a blast, I did too. I am severely selective. I am ok with that.

Posted: 9/18/2022 12:59:46 AM EDT

[#17]

68 here. Been retired with my wife since early March '20.
I've always preferred my own company to the company of others. While I love my wife and love being with her, if she were to die (or divorce me), I would be perfectly happy being by myself for the rest of my life. I could see myself knowing the end was near and walking off into the wilderness to die by myself. Full disclosure: I have two kids and two stepchildren, one of which I've been with since she was eleven. It doesn't bother me that they wouldn't know what happened to me in that event, for reasons...
I made a comment in my teens to my mom that I could see myself being a hermit in a cave on a mountain. She told my siblings later in life that I wanted to be left alone and not to bother me. While I was somewhat offended that she would tell them that, there IS a certain amount of truth to it.

Posted: 9/18/2022 1:05:21 AM EDT

[#18]

After more than 2 decades in the Army, I want my own peace and quiet. If I can afford it, no neighbors.

Posted: 9/18/2022 1:30:39 AM EDT

[#19]

If your a good looking girl with a pleasant personality then I don’t mind being around you.

If you have something useful to say I don’t mind being around you.

If your a retard, blowhard, muppet, arch boomer, communist, drunk or jackass. I have absolutely no use for you and you are wasting my time.

Posted: 9/18/2022 1:33:33 AM EDT

[#20]

Depends. Assholes and drama magnets?

I ain’t got time for that.

Posted: 9/18/2022 1:40:18 AM EDT

[#21]

Yes.

Posted: 9/18/2022 2:52:34 AM EDT

[#22]

Yes!

Posted: 9/18/2022 6:58:34 AM EDT

[#23]

exactly!

Posted: 9/18/2022 7:03:25 AM EDT

[#24]

I find as I age I get less and less from friendships and other relations. I prefer to drink my daily two alone than go to a bar.

A friend 20 years younger than me had a falling out with one of his good friends. He ran the situation by me and asked if you tend to lose friends over time. Easier to lose them than make them as we all get older.

Posted: 9/18/2022 7:07:28 AM EDT

[#25]

Nothing's changed for me, I've never been wanting more friends than I already have, and that's not many.

Posted: 9/18/2022 7:16:38 AM EDT

[#26]

Slowly?
Immediately? Yes!

Posted: 9/18/2022 7:55:22 AM EDT

[#27]

I look at it like this

When I go to work I have to be “work me “

When I go out I have to be “socially nice me “

When we have family get togethers I have to be “fake me “

When I’m home or fishing I get to be “me “

I prefer not be be all those other me s

Posted: 9/18/2022 8:24:34 AM EDT

[#28]

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Posted: 9/18/2022 8:26:41 AM EDT

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Never liked crowds, noticed that in my 20's. Now 61 and have no desire to go to any event with a crowd, unless I can stay away from them. Social distancing was awesome! Hate driving to the city as the traffic is crazy. People, in large groups, suck ass, they are selfish and rude.

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Lol, I was 51 when covid struck the region. I had a confirmed exposure and caught a quarantine order from the county even though I was asymptomatic. The county health nurse on the phone went down the list of things they wanted to be sure I was covered,....can I get groceries delivered(I have a month or two of food in the house) , did I have a thermometer so I could report my temperature as they checked on me by phone, did I have anyone to be a caregiver in the event of need (no).....

and would I be able to deal with the isolation or loneliness from isolation. There I outright laughed at her, Honey I said, I work in Law Enforcement and purposely live in a remote location so not to be bothered, I can take all the quarantine you got and then some, it’s a paid vacation from people.

Posted: 9/18/2022 8:55:03 AM EDT

[#30]

The older I get the more and more I understand and relate to Al Bundy.

Posted: 9/18/2022 8:58:32 AM EDT

[#31]

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Just turning 43 a couple weeks ago and if I had the next 30 years on a farm with no neighbors I could see without binoculars, I'd be just fine.

Posted: 9/18/2022 9:08:20 AM EDT

[#32]

49, I find the same. Mostly it seems to me others are hard for me to relate to in my age range; old friends moved on/families etc or...died.

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