Friends - or lack of.

No, not just you but I do think that people tend not to entertain so much at home nowdays. Most go to the pub/garden centre for a cheapish meal. Our local does an over 60s special on a Tuesday - 2 course for £5.99 and we are in a very expensive area. Bottom line is that it saves a lot of cooking. I would suggest that you invite some of your friends for a lunch out.

We find that we still meet up with longstanding friends, usually somewhere outside the home for a meal but its true that with newer friends its just at whatever group we have met them. The dinner party seems to be dead no one wants to cook. So at home its mostly family meet ups.

I was very unskilled at making friends as a young woman so its come as a bit of a surprise that nowadays I am actually making some good ones. OH is not wildly social (just shy - not grumpy) so making friends has been through things like joining interest groups in local village or through volunteering. I think trying to make and keep friends as a couple, unless there is a real shared interest, is asking a lot. Now that we are all a little more set in our ways its not so easy to be 'best' friends with both halves of a couple.....or perhaps that's just me!

Yes, most of my friends these days are online - old friends from school days are on Facebook and other friends more likely to be "email and phone calls". I know my neighbors and we occasionally have coffee but that's about it. I'm a bit reclusive by choice so I can't complain since I don't go looking for outside friendships. Before retirement I had friends at work, but that didn't translate into anything lasting. None of this bothers me at all - I'd be quite happy as a solitary monk living in a cave - as long as it had WiFi !

Same here.....I used to entertain a lot , but since divorce, no big parties. I have a few friends but they are so involved with their families, there!s no time for me. One of them is actually so obsessed with her special son, and special granddaughter. she sees them almost everyday. I am a bit jealous really.
Neighbours are ok. But no one has house parties anymore.
I have family who live nearby , who I see once in a while.
You have your DH ....to be honest, I wish I had met someone with whom I could ride off into the sunset ...no such luck ?

No not just you. Since my DH died all invitations to parties etc. have dried up - I have even had neighbours ring me to say they were having a party/bbq and could their guests use my driveway! We used to get invited to everything as DH was the life and soul of any gathering, me not so much.

Yes I have also tried inviting friends and neighbours, but invariably they come, eat and drink (usually copious amounts) then like you say disappear never to be heard of again!