As you grow older, you witness what use to be your friend circle shrink down. Your boys, one by one, succumb to the LTR they get into. Their priorities change. They start doing things with other couples. When you’re with them, you’re the odd one there without a partner, assuming you’re even invited. LTR people don’t usually like doing things with single people. It’s weird. They do things with other couples.

For those who have run into this dilemma before, how did you face it?

Keep in mind, the advice of “Make new friends with single guys your age.” isn’t as easy applicable to everyone. Not everybody lives in LA or NYC and is nearby a conglomeration of successful single men. In most parts of the west, it seems that most single older men aren’t exactly happy or successful unless they’re rich or famous. They’re usually still single because they’re left behind and are at a terrible phase in life. I don’t want to be friends with these kinds of men.