Time to spend with friends

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How do people actually find time to socialise with friends/spend time with partners?

I don't know whether i am using the fact that i am busy as an excuse to not make friends or not. I have a lot of hobbies and they take up most of my free time, i think my hobbies are essential to my well being and a part of me would dislike having friends or a girlfriend to take me away from them.

I know of people who juggle work and their hobbies despite having partners and children. Then you've got chores to do around the house...How?

I think after most of my life spent in isolation i've become too accustomed to being alone, and i will never be able to get out of the habit. Even as a kid i spent most of my life alone and immersed in fantasy, whereas my school mates spent time with each other out of school hours. I actually did not feel lonely as a kid, the lonely feelings started when i was around 16.

 

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Thanks for the responce. I seem to think a lot these days about how i have spent years isolating myself form everyone. I was looking at old emails going back as far as 2007 and i felt overwhelmed by sadness at seeing ''how things used to be'' i wasn't very social then either but i had people i emailed often. I feel i have lost potential friendships from my self isolating.