Hanging out is tough when you’re 40. Even more so when you’re at a loss of the “third space.”
When you’re younger, in the 20s, hanging out at someone else’s house or apartment made sense because everything was cheaper and usually the party had no where to go. Also, you didn’t care so much about your furniture and didn’t have kids or dogs hanging around.
Approaching 40, people have kids and dogs and love staying in at night on their oversized couch under the glow of their TV (guilty). Having people over means you need to change out of sweatpants and clean the “public” area of the house.
People my age are also having to face their reality of alcohol – so going out for drinks is a crap shoot. Some are in recovery, some can’t handle the hangovers. Others get headaches from the first few sips of a beer.