Why is it more difficult to make lasting friendships when older?

Answer 1

I think you are wrong. I beleive the friendship is lasting more when older.

Answer 2

We make more friendship when we are younger because we are more trusting & are going through learning the baiscs of starting out a life & going through lives crisises together. this statisticlly increases the odds of longer relationships. Also, we have more energy to get more done & still have time for going out.

As we get older we are less trusting of others & feel that we don't really need help as much as we did when we were younger because we know more now or at least the basics. we are more private & do not run our mouths off of everything we did good or bad as like in high school. now things carry more of a consequence. We also have less time as well as free time due to family obligations that are now present that were not in our youth such as a spouse, domestic partner or kids.

hope this helps,

SS

Answer 3

I think that the friendships we had in HS, where we would do anything for each other and couldn't think of life without the rest of the gang...those die off because people grow up. They change alot somewhere between senior year in HS and 22-ish. Not everyone leaves HS in their minds, so you have people who were in the same croud in HS and now some of them are still exactly the same and some have moved on to deal with jobs, responsibilities, serious relationships. It can be hard to get the two mindsets to mesh.

As we get older, we might find we meet less people to be friends with, but the friendships last longer, have more common ground, more strength to them than before. We got from quantity of friends to quality of friends.

In HS, my group of pals was pretty extended. We were the artisitic weirdo's LOL! One by one, I parted ways with most of them. I do still keep in touch with two of them, and am still very close with two others. That's it. Some of us grew up, some of us moved on, and some of us didn't. Who we were in HS is no where near who we are now. Life goes on.

Answer 4

Because older people have less time to devote to friendships. They're too busy trying to feed their children and make sure the lights stay on. Remember that the next time you convince yourself your parents hate you.

Answer 5

Because the older you get, the more set in your ways you become, then the friendship tree becomes a little more narrow, fewer people have the same things in common then yourself.

Answer 6

because alot of people are starting to settle down and pay more attention to their own families. They still value their friendships but when a person wants to start settling down, they know it takes work. It takes dedication. Some people cant understand that so they begin to drift away.

Answer 7

when you're older you can see thru the lines of BS that people give you making to more skeptical. No longer are you gulliable to believing everything and anything people say.

My bestfriend and I have been best friends since 1986. 20 years and alot of water under both of our bridges has been shared. No we're not gay...just best of friends.

Answer 8

Because we wonder too much about people's motives. I get IM's and I wonder if it's just some guy that wants to show me a picture of his privates or some girl who wants me to buy a really nice condo in Branson. We move and forget to start that part of our lives over. We have a love of our life and forget we need friends too.

Answer 9

Life gets busy and in the way. We have friendships to help us along our paths and you take from them the experiences you share...

Answer 10

Tis depend on the friend u meet and had... As friendship need both hands to clap too...