Many years ago I had a boyfriend who had had a business allied to hotel and catering he had many, many acquaintances not real friends and no siblings. Too much time building a business had robbed him of leisure time, his contemporaries were married and had families. He envied me as I had at the time two female friends I spent a lot of time with we had interests in common, the same moral values one was a colleague, one I met at College. Eventually I house shared with one of them for two years until I married. Those two ladies are still good friends and we are in regular contact 40 years later. In more recent years I made two more female friends both former colleagues I have known them for 12 years. Three of us love and have cats, two of us love history, three belong to the National Trust (I get to go in free) three of us like classical music, two love making pickles, jams etc, four love gardening two grow lots of lovely veg, one likes horses, all of us enjoy reading. So we mix and match we are all interesting in our own way and different too. I sense you are a little unsettled at the moment you like reading, is there a book club in your area? Maybe you can find details in your local library? A pub playing live music? I love my own company but can start a conversation with anyone. Maybe you don't have much money how about a walk in the park, the fresh air will do you good and you might meet a friendly dog walker, volunteer somewhere, most animal charities are always looking for people to help them, then you may meet people of a similar mind set. Sometimes you have to give yourself that extra push, take little steps you will be surprised what you can do and soon I hope you will have new friends, maybe your reserve put some people off, show them the real you.