Adult friendships

Making friends as an adult is so hard, especially when I don’t have social places to meet people at because I’m in a rural area and the locals are often bigoted and scare me. I don’t have school or work to be around people at either. My social anxiety has gotten so much worse since the pandemic I think. I was already anxious before that but the isolation definitely didn’t help. Outside of my girlfriends and family I’m pretty lonely. I wouldn’t have anybody if it wasn’t for them.