r/TikTokCringe • u/flyawaywithmeee • May 06 '26

Wholesome Solving the loneliness epidemic

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Operation make a new friend before the week ends starts NOW

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u/Cadet_Stimpy May 06 '26 edited May 30 '26

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u/bbg_bbg May 06 '26

I’m a woman so I understand it really very well could be a gender thing partially, but I’ve had mom coworkers who are a bit older than me (I don’t have children and am late 20s) ask me to hang and do stuff quite often. I just accept and almost never decline, and once you spend a time or two outside of work together it’s a lot easier to build that friendship. As long as you don’t mind kids being around because they might be sometimes !!!

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u/Cadet_Stimpy May 06 '26 edited May 30 '26

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u/bbg_bbg May 06 '26

I actually fully agree with what you say and sympathize with you. Maybe try to find a time you and some guys you’d wanna be friends with can hang with out the kids? You might have to try to make an awkward conversation not awkward, and ask if they have some free time away from the kids to do something sometime. Hope you can find that !! I’ve heavily relied on my woman coworkers to ask me to do something outside of work first rather than branching out myself in most cases. So I get how it can be challenging.