MWF&M looking for Couple Friends

Have you noticed that the older you get, the harder it is to make good friends? I'm not talking about acquaintances...I'm talking about in your life, spontaneously showing up at your door, calling at the last minute for brunch friends.

Since moving to VB we have made friends, but VB is a very transient area. Being a military town, people move a lot. We moved here for my hubby's grad school and that is another transient population. Most of the friends we met during grad school have now moved on to other places.  But we ended up back here even after we tried moving away :)

I read a book about a year ago called MWF seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend by Rachel Bertsche. I highly recommend it as it is an entertaining read. The author goes on one friend date per week for an entire year and blogged about it as well as wrote a book . I recently started thinking about this book again and have been considering using some of her methods to make new friends. Basically she writes what she calls an"online essay" and shares this essay with all of her family, friends, etc asking them to help her connect with new friends.

I am very introverted and while I am friendly, I don't think I am the best friend-maker. So the thought of putting myself out there is really scary because of the possible rejection. It's like middle school all over again LOL

As we have gotten older, friends have moved away, or had kids and understandably have less time to hang out. So I feel like we need to expand our friend circle and make some new friends to hang out with.

So I decided to start researching...yes, I am a nerd. :) I found a website called Kupple.com. I was a little nervous about it at first because I was afraid it would be a swinger site...but thankfully , it was not! I set up a profile and viewed other profiles of couples in the area who were looking for friends as well. I need to draft a message to send to a few couples to see if anyone is interested in having a friend date. But I am nervous about that too! :)

There is another site www.dinklife.com that I signed up for...only to find out that my city is not one of the cities on the site. But the site is currently in Beta so maybe they will add the VB area? Fingers crossed.

Back to the book...so that author talks about how important social networking was in her search for her new BFF. She was introduced to friends of friends, acquaintances, a girl in her yoga class, she joined a book club, volunteered, and even tried rentafriend.com...yes there is a site called rentafriend.com! She was really all-in for a year of friend dating. This idea intrigues me and terrifies me that the same time.

 So I really need to get on this "online essay" thing. I think it should go something like this:

Married couple looking for another married couple to hang out with for last minute brunches, movie watching, traveling to fun places, dinners out or in, and generally good conversation. No, we do not have major issues and are not losers...we just find that as we get older, friends move away or it's harder to maintain friendships due to growing families. :)
While we feel too old to stay out until 4am drinking and dancing, we do like to have fun and aren't ready to go to bed at 8pm. (We still like drinking and dancing.) Our ideal friends must love dogs, beach life, and coffee :)
We are NOT swingers so don't go there...ew! Just looking for friendship and people to share life with.
If interested... yada yada yada

I'm trying to figure out if this is just too weird...or if I just need to get over myself and put us out there. LOL

I'll keep you posted :)