No Friends in Retirement? Here’s the Simple Fix!
Robert's Active Retirement
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21,871 views Feb 10, 2025 Robert’s Retirement Reflections
Are you struggling to make friends in retirement? Many retirees find their social circles shrinking after leaving the workforce, but the good news is—you CAN build new friendships, and it’s easier than you think!
In this video, I break down exactly how to make real friends in retirement by finding activities you love and connecting with like-minded people. Staying home won’t help—but getting out there will!
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Introduction: No Friends in Retirement?
0:00 Introduction: No Friends in Retirement? 0:00
0:00 no friends in retirement no friends in 0:04
0:05 retirement well that's
what the YouTube 0:08 0:08
says all these YouTube videos say no I 0:11 0:11
have no friends I'm retired last year 0:14 0:14
and I have no friends I don't mean to 0:17 0:17
make fun of it it's it's a problem you 0:20 0:20
how do you replace people from work you 0:22 0:22
know how do you get friends in 0:23 0:24
retirement people honestly do not know 0:25 0:25
how to do that and I'm here to tell you 0:28 0:28
how to do that it's just very simple 1 Why Do Retirees Struggle to Make Friends?
0:31 0:31 two 3 ready well
0:35 you find activities you 0:37
0:37 like to do activities you like to do 0:40
0:40 outside of your house you can't do them 0:42
0:42 in your house and you go do those 0:45
0:46 activities that's about it you do those 0:49
0:49 activities you like to do have fun doing 0:53
0:53 you will find the people that are also 0:56
0:56 doing those 0:57
0:58 activities they they like the same 1:00
1:00 activities you do so you got that in 1:02
1:02 common to begin with and
if you keep Step #1: Find Activities You Enjoy 1:05
Step #1: Find Activities You Enjoy
1:05 repeating that whether it's a walking 1:07
1:07 group or playing 1:09
bot or playing softball 1:11 1:11
like the softball feeli behind us here 1:13 1:13
um 1:15 1:15
bowling reading 1:18 1:18
cards um all kind of stuff you will have 1:21 1:21
friends I guarantee you I mean I got 1:24 1:24
more friends than I can count and it's 1:26 1:26
because of that I got my bot friends I 1:27 1:27
got my softball friends I got my 1:30 1:30
walking group 1:31 1:32
friends um I got my card friends I got 1:35 1:35
my neighbor 1:36 1:36
friends um all kind of things so find 1:39 1:39
stuff you like to do do it um don't just 1:43 1:43
go one time and stop you know you got 1:46 1:46
you got to keep going and just have fun Step #2: Do Activities Outside of Your Home
Step #2: Do Activities Outside of Your Home
1:49 1:49 and it's it's easy it's absolutely easy
1:52 1:52 and people do not realize that for some
1:54 1:54 reason I don't know why they they don't
1:56 1:56 know that they're not used to doing that
1:58 1:58 they're used to working
2:00 they're not used 2:00
2:00 to having fun so find things you like to 2:03
2:03 do outside of your house it has to be 2:05
2:05 outside of your house you can't do it in 2:06
2:06 the house you have to go outside the 2:08
2:08 house and do those um and just keep it 2:12
2:12 up that's the whole key keep it up keep 2:14
2:14 it up um and you will find friends not 2:17
2:17 only that you'll find a group of friends 2:20
2:20 doing one activity and then you do 2:23
2:23 another activity and guess what there's 2:26
2:26 a whole new group of f friends that you 2:29
2:29 will have have they won't be your 2:31
2:31 friends the very first time you do it 2:34
2:34 they won't be your friends the second 2:36
2:36 time you like them you think you like 2:39
2:40 them but uh just keep doing
it and they Step #3: Keep Showing Up Consistently 2:43
Step #3: Keep Showing Up Consistently
2:43 will become your friends I I do the 2:45
2:45 walking group here and we walk Monday 2:47
2:47 Wednesday and Friday 2:49
and you know we get 2:51 2:51
together we all we're all the Walkers we 2:52 2:53
like to walk and we get together and 2:55 2:55
walk we take a walk Monday Wednesday 2:57 2:57
Friday 7:30 in the morning walk for an 2:58 2:59
hour together 3:00 3:00
and you walk and talk you know you talk 3:03 3:03
to people and you find out about them 3:05 3:05
and these are people from various places 3:08 3:08
in the country and the world and um 3:11 3:11
different backgrounds and we're here now 3:14 3:15
so that's the key to it do it do that 3:19 3:19
repeatedly and we formed a like a text 3:22 3:22
group of uh text uh group text I think 3:25 3:25
you call it and at first I thought it 3:27 3:27
was kind of crazy but it's a good idea 3:30 3:30
you know we keep in touch are you 3:31 3:31
walking today I'm walking tomorrow I'm 3:33 3:33
not feeling good today oh how are you 3:35 3:35
doing you feeling better all kind of 3:38 3:38
stuff I'm on vacation here's a crew 3:40 3:40
picture of the cruise ship you 3:42 3:42
know uh you can always turn the text off The Power of Group Activities
The Power of Group Activities
3:45 3:45 if it gets too much but I've really
3:48 3:48 enjoyed that and
3:49 U I guarantee if I text 3:51
3:51 somebody right now and say I'm I'm 3:52
3:52 stranded I need a ride
back or whatever 3:55 3:55
the case is four or five people would 3:58 3:58
respond within minute 4:01 4:00
minutes and so that's how you how you do 4:04 4:05
it um where do you do it well you can go 4:07 4:07
to Neighborhood senior centers don't 4:09 4:09
write them off you know I know I know 4:11 4:11
what you're thinking you're Neighborhood 4:13 4:13
Senior Center I'm not ready for a senior 4:15 4:15
center these days they're different 4:17 4:17
they're people like me and you and 4:19 4:19
they're retired looking for friends 4:21 4:21
looking for something to do and they 4:23 4:23
have all kind of stuff uh to do my first 4:27 4:27
um group was at the senior center 4:30 4:30
in fact I became a member of the 4:31 4:32
Activities Committee on the senior 4:33 4:33
center that was even better but I did 4:35 4:35
The Walking group Park Place Pacers and 4:38 4:39
met uh don from Cleveland Lamont from 4:41 4:41
New Jersey and I'm from Atlanta and we 4:43 4:43
had the best time I we we're this same How Walking Groups Build Friendships
How Walking Groups Build Friendships
4:45 4:46 general General age group and we've been
4:48 4:48 through some of the same stuff same cars
4:51 4:51 we had what's your first car we talked
4:53 4:53 about what's your first job where have
4:55 4:55 you lived what tell us uh any famous
4:58 4:58 people you've met
4:59 all kind of things you 5:01
5:01 can talk 5:02
5:02 about but it doesn't have to be a Walkin 5:04
5:04 group it could be a card group uh my 5:06
5:06 wife is a member of the card group hand 5:08
5:08 and foot she loves that she has friends 5:11
5:11 doing uh cards and um you know they're 5:15
5:15 all over the country and have the best 5:18
5:18 time uh when they get together they have 5:21
5:21 Refreshments they play cards but then 5:23
5:23 they take a break and they they talk and 5:26
5:26 then pretty soon oh you going to go to 5:28
5:28 this concert distribute B man you know 5:31
5:31 you get me tickets I'll get tickets for 5:33
5:33 the whole group you know let's get a 5:36
5:36 table and so that's kind of the way it 5:39
5:40 goes and uh I'll just quit rambling but 5:44
5:44 if you want friends and retirement I can 5:46
5:46 tell you how to do it I've already told 5:48
5:48 you just to 5:49
5:49 summarize get out of your house find 5:52
5:53 activities Senior Center uh
Senior Centers & Community Groups
neighborhood Senior Centers & Community Groups 5:56
5:56 recreation 5:57
5:57 centers um oh Active Adult Community I 6:01
6:01 move this is active adult Adult 6:02
6:02 Community I'm living in It's Made for 6:05
6:05 friends you know it's got 100 clubs it's 6:09
6:09 got 100 uh different groups to join to 6:11
6:11 do activities everybody moved here from 6:14
6:14 all over the world in the country and 6:16
6:16 they're looking for friends you know 6:18
6:18 we're retired you know we want to have 6:20
6:21 fun with people that we like doing stuff 6:25
6:25 that both of us like and if you do that 6:28
6:28 enough times 6:30
you in fact will become 6:31 6:32
friends there's no doubt about it every 6:34 6:34
Everybody may not be able to afford a 55 6:36 6:36
plus Community but again there's Senior 6:39 6:40
Communities recreation centers clubs 6:43 6:43
meetups meetups um neighborhood groups 6:47 6:47
of All 6:48 6:48
Sorts um so there's plenty of places to 6:51 6:51
do it or Hobbies you know you can meet 6:53 6:53
up with people that way too so uh I'll Active Adult Communities & Social Clubs
Active Adult Communities & Social Clubs
6:56 6:56 quit rambling and just say do things you
6:59 6:59 like like to do outside of your house
7:02 7:02 and you will find people you like and
7:05 7:05 just keep doing it and I guarantee you
7:08 7:08 you will become
7:09 7:10 friends so I'm Robert from Robert's
7:12 7:12 active retirement I just wanted to post
7:15 7:15 that answer to a question a lot of these
7:17 7:17 guys are newly retired and they are
7:19 7:19 asking the question they're not
7:21 7:21 providing any answers just questions so
7:24 7:25 there's your
7:25 7:27 answer hope you make some friends thanks
7:30 7:30 for watching if you like this video
7:32 7:32 please give me a like and follow my
7:35 7:35 channel thanks so much talk to you later
7:38 7:38 bye
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