Dear EE:

You are very welcome. I hope other members answer you as well, and have ideas that I don’t have. But it may not happen; it’s been very slow here for a while. I understand better what you need. I think that a lot of people in this day and age have the experience of not having friends in real life. Even when with friends, each is engaged with his/ her phone, separately.

To meet and make female friends, in real life, during the pandemic, that’s almost impossible, or at least, not recommended! I imagine the best way to make female friends at this time, if it is possible and safe enough, would be to join a volunteer group that helps people in need. Problem with this idea, I imagine, is that the volunteers are there to do a job, not to make friends.

But in any case, within a volunteer group, during or after the pandemic, you will be able to spend quality time with other women, doing something that you all believe in.

* You lost the man you loved when you were 22. I am sorry. It must have been- and still is- very painful for you.

anita