So I have a best friend that calls me every single day and we hang out alot. However, we are both single and all of the girls in our [really his] circle of friends is magnetically attracted to him and he basically steals the show whenever we hang out. If a new girl enters the scene he basically has her wanting him already before I can even eke out a 'My name is ...'. I looked at my myspace the other day and 88% of my 'friends' I know solely through him and this makes me mad. I am naturally very shy and soft spoken and have to be around people I am very comfortable with in order to be effectively social and allow my sense of humor to come out. I've spent the better part of the last two years being single and I know I'm going down into that ravine of loneliness/depression again.
So I'm trying to find a new way to be social (and meet women) without him but it's extremely difficult. I have another group of not-so-close friends that I can be around without my best friend but it's difficult for me to feel included because they all smoke pot alot and I don't. My last girlfriend I met through college but things didn't work out and she won't talk to me ever again. Meeting girls at school was my only hope but I'm not going back until September.
I just got home from the bar...played some poker and tried to start some convos with strangers but I found it very difficult to keep any converstion going. I'm just not a man of many words.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
So I'm trying to find a new way to be social (and meet women) without him but it's extremely difficult. I have another group of not-so-close friends that I can be around without my best friend but it's difficult for me to feel included because they all smoke pot alot and I don't. My last girlfriend I met through college but things didn't work out and she won't talk to me ever again. Meeting girls at school was my only hope but I'm not going back until September.
I just got home from the bar...played some poker and tried to start some convos with strangers but I found it very difficult to keep any converstion going. I'm just not a man of many words.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.