r/bromance

I’ve been married for 12 years, with no children. I am married to another guy.

He drives me crazy sometimes. I want to meet someone who I can vent to about our life, marriage, work, family, and whatever.

My husband works 2 jobs, so he works 7 days a week. I get lonely being home and not really having friends. I want a safe space with someone.

Thanks for reading and dm me if you are interested.

26, bi, and military. I’m here looking to meet some genuine guys who are interested in building a real, long-term bromance. Not just someone to talk to for a few days and then disappear, but someone I can actually build a solid friendship with over time.
A little about me: I enjoy gaming, hitting the gym, watching and playing sports, anime, and getting outdoors whenever I get the chance. I can enjoy a competitive game, a good workout, a random late-night conversation, or just hanging out and doing absolutely nothing. I’m pretty open-minded, easygoing, and always down to try something new.
I’m big on good energy, loyalty, honesty, and being able to laugh at just about anything. I think having genuine male friendships is important, and there’s nothing wrong with wanting friendships where you can be yourself without feeling judged. Whether we’re talking every day, gaming together, motivating each other in the gym, watching sports, or eventually meeting up and hanging out, I’m open to seeing where a genuine connection goes.
I’m not looking to force anything or put expectations on it. I’d rather let things develop naturally and see if we click.
If you’re also looking for a solid bro, someone to share laughs, experiences, conversations, and good memories with, don’t be afraid to hit me up. Let’s get to know each other and see where it goes!

Hi. I’m 54 and married to a woman. Looking for someone in the same boat in life. Haven’t always been great at making guy friends. Big plus if you in Texas. I’m a dad as well to a college student. Also , navigating empty nesting with my wife.
I work way way too many hours and I’d like to focus more on my workouts. Maybe a good accountability bud would help.

I’m in the DFW area but welcome any US location.

yo, kinda a lazy Sunday. went to church and gym, but bored now. would be cool to find other similar guys to chat with.

things I'm into:

• outdoors stuff (hunting, fishing, boating, golfing)
• working out (wrestled growing up, still do some mma)
• watching sports (NFL, NCAA football, UFC, F1)
• listening to podcasts (history, sports, comedy, politics)
• drinking/going to bars

I have a gf, but bi I guess. looking for longer term, deeper chat. I'm more right-wing conservative, but down to chat with everyone.

There's probably a guy you've said some version of "We should hang out sometime" to.

Maybe you know him from work, the gym, a regular coffee stop, or somewhere you keep crossing paths. You talk easily. You like him. You could actually imagine being friends.

And then nothing happens.

I've been wondering how often we describe friendship as something that "just happened" when, somewhere along the way, somebody still had to turn sometime into an actual Saturday.

One person reaches out and the other responds. A conversation that could have ended keeps going. You talk again. Eventually, you share something you probably wouldn't have shared the first time. None of those moments announces itself as this is how a friendship starts. They're just small choices that keep giving the connection somewhere to go.

And maybe part of that is letting the other person meet a little more of who we actually are along the way. Not everything at once. Just enough that the connection has something real to grow around.

Maybe that's why close friendships can look so natural in hindsight. Once there's enough history, we mostly remember the friendship itself. We don't necessarily remember all the tiny moments when either person could have let it stop there.

I don't think that means friendship is something we can manufacture. Two people can get along perfectly well and still never become friends. You can reach out and get no response. You can enjoy someone and discover there just isn't enough interest on the other side for anything more to develop.

But maybe "organic" doesn't mean nobody did anything.

Maybe it means neither person forced the outcome, while both of them kept giving the connection another chance to become something.

Looking back at one of your close friendships, can you see the small moments when one of you kept moving it forward?

Since ending my relationship at the start of the year, my local social circle has shrunk significantly and I've fallen into the pattern of not doing much at all between going to and from work. I've tried reaching out to new people but man, men are such flakes.

Just in the last month alone, I've had plans fall through with:

• a guy who thought me needing to shower and fill my car with fuel after waiting for a Coles home delivery sounded like 'too much effort' but who then turned out to be the one who couldn't make the date when I was ready to go because he was still living with his ex of a decade who apparently follows him around like a shadow and who he can't make any excuse good enough to leave home without
• a man who was super keen to go on a weekend hike with me until I shared a few photos - not of me (which had already been exchanged), but of one of my overseas trips - and ghosted me
• a guy whose crippling depression and anxiety are apparently too much for him to be able to meet new people, but not enough for him to post photos of himself in his underwear on an almost daily basis with the aim of losing his virginity
• a man-child who was really excited to continue the conversation on WhatsApp - until he decided that the nickname my friends and colleagues refer to me by apparently isn't good enough for him and didn't want to continue the conversation because I didn't want to disclose my full government name to him

It really feels like I'm playing on hard mode here. I want to connect with someone cool again who isn't flaky. I want to meet someone equally nerdy, equally interested in gaming, equally just slightly socially awkward, equally uninterested in having sex with half of Sydney, and equally uninterested in drugs and alcohol. But half the messages I receive are from people who just want to fuck, who lie about their age, or who have some other weird quirk about them, and that's really tiring. I've had the occasional suggestion of joining a hiking group, too, but I'm not really looking for that as a sole big group activity. I much prefer some quiet one-on-one bonding time with someone.

I also really love to travel, but haven't been overseas for six months now. I have two weeks off coming up and really want to go to Japan at the end of this month. If anyone's interested...