Smillie - i found the best therapy as people have said is to GAL!
i am an introvert by nature i joined Meetup and signed up to 9 different groups around my area! i seem to be never home, my days off fly by! whatever you are prepared to put in to it - you will get out in heaps! ... but you need to put effort in to get anything out!
I agree that I need to make the effort. Meetup in my area is a pain as there's not anything about. I've always had this issue with meetup - there is absolutely nothing in my area. Neither was there ever anything in my previous are, or the area before that. I am currently away from home in a totally different area of the country and lo and behold, there is nothing in this area either. Everything seems to be limited to the larger towns.
This seems to be an issue with the UK on meetup perhaps? I don't know, but I've never found any group in my area and the best there seems to be are online groups, which doesn't really cut the mustard as I like to meet people.
I suppose there is nothing wrong with creating my own group at some stage, after I've moved perhaps......
M(55), W(45) BD1: Apr-2011, BD2: 23-May-21, NC (15 June '21) Divorce Filed (16 July '21) --- When you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, you need to trust it's there.