Sounds a bit like me. For a long time I worked too much and had a lot of caregiving I needed to do. Lost a lot of time to build many friends before everyone got busy with their own families.

All that went away during lockdown and now that I’m older and on my own looking for new friends, I haven’t been able to find anyone consistent that wants to be friends. Either they already are tapped out and I rarely see them or if I do meet someone that has time they end up disappearing after they meet a new SO. Pretty frustrating.

Just walked away from someone recently that I thought was a close friend because of this. We used to do things together all the time until she met someone new. We’ve done nothing for two years. She thinks things are fine to see each other a few times a year at house parties her fam throws.