Reddit mentions of MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend

My partner has recently been reading and trying out ideas from this book by a woman who dealt with the same situation: MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend. (Link is to Amazon, but she found it in the public library). No new BFF yet, but she has certainly started extending her range of interaction with new activities and meeting new people.

I'm sorry. I don't have many friends in real life because I never went out and made the effort. I really regret it, and I am trying to change that. I picked up this book from the library and it has helped a bit. Lots of laughs and insight into the friend thing. Hang in there. We will always be here for you!

Everyone has offered great suggestions on here. I definitely recommend Meetup.com as well. I've tried quite a few different groups: rock climbing, a gal's book club, social activities groups that aren't related to dating, language exchanges. You'll find they are hit or miss, but you'll hopefully come out of it with a couple groups you like, and even some new friends. I've made a group of really good friends from my book club (going to one of the gal's BBQ's today actually!).

I really liked Rachel Bertsche's book MWF Seeking BFF. It chronicles her search for making new friends in Chicago, and all the various tactics she tried, as well as inserts research into it about friendships as an adult. It gave me some good ideas and ways to approach the new friend search.

I'd also advise you to keep up with your current girlfriends group, even if they're in a different situation currently. They may not want to go out to the bar/dancing, but you could try getting them together and doing brunch monthly or coffee dates or something like that.

I'm not sure how this book ends as I'm only starting to read it. But so far it is offering me much comfort in a similar situation. http://www.amazon.com/MWF-Seeking-BFF-Yearlong-Search/dp/0345524942/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324739339&sr=8-1