Alone, lonely, homebound senior male needs friebnds to communicate with

[Steve-Alone]

I am homebound, senior male, late 60's. So lonely for friends to communicate with. I have a home online business, but need personal, one on one friendship. I am married, she works and gone all the time, and tired when home so I really am very lonely and miss having people to talk to who care and can truly share feelings, concerns, and just be totally open with. I have been getting depressed lately and I know having someone go be friend with will help tremendously. I have always had someone in my life to be close to, but lost a wife to cancer several years ago. Married now about 10 years, but the closeness just isn't there. I am so alone and lonely.

Edited October 30, 2014 by Steve-Alone
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[BluEyeL]

I'm so sorry for your pain

 

Some ideas would be to become a regular participant on some online forums such as this one, and develop online friendships. I have two pen pals from here, and they are great help. With one, I email daily and it's great for both of us to share our thoughts and feelings on a regular basis.

 

Another idea would be to open a meetup group on a topic that interests you. You could organize one get together per month. If someone can take you to a location other than your home once a month (maybe hire someone or find some helpers for homebound people) where the meetings could take place (a restaurant, cafe etc.) that would be good. An alternative would be to have meetings in your home, but that could be more dangerous. These groups also build up slowly, takes about 1year of consistent effort to gather enough people and make real connections. I own two meetup groups and made friends through that.

 

You can join existing meetup groups, but you say you can't leave your home. However, if someone can take you once a month to one of these gatherings, maybe it could be done.