First, let me give some background. I’m an adult male, and my best friends have nearly always been female. I’m not sure why, but I tend to relate better to women and find them easier to communicate with. Until about eight years ago, I had several very close female friends at any given time, but one by one, they all moved out of the area and we eventually lost touch. Because we started as in-person friends, the transition to a long distance friendship didn’t work very well.

I’ve been in a committed relationship for about 10 years, and as my friends moved away, it’s been difficult to make more, due to both a lack of time and a lack of opportunity because my significant other has very little interest in socializing with anyone. In the past two years or so, I’ve really started to miss that social interaction, especially the opportunity to talk to someone I can relate to well, and to hear a woman’s point of view from someone who I know and trust.

I finally started responding to women looking for email pals on the Craigslist "Strictly Platonic" section, and after many brief email exchanges that went nowhere, found someone who I could relate to. That was great for maybe six months, but then she dove headfirst into a home-based network marketing business (like Mary Kay but not), and ended up with no time to talk to anyone except to try to sell them her company’s product. So it was back to the drawing board, so to speak, but after another six months of responding to the appropriate Craigslist posts, I still hadn’t found anyone else with whom I seem to "click" as a friend, and finally gave up.

After all that, my question is really pretty simple. Other than the Craigslist "Strictly Platonic" section, does anyone have any idea where I might have a decent chance of finding female online pen pals with whom I might be compatible? I mean that only in a friendship sense, not a romantic or sexual one, so adult or dating type sites won’t be very helpful.

go to tagged..and start looking and writing
I am married for 25 years and my wife and I write to people on Tagged
although I got a picture of a gal on tagged with a T shirt that said
*I want a stiff one* and I just laughed and deleted her
no use in starting something I can’t finish