The friends I started climbing with have lost interest, they come out every few weeks for the sake of it but have gone off trad, and leading, and will just do 2 or 3 top rope routes and then leave or lie down, so they can say they still like 'climbing' - some of them have ended up with more energy sapping jobs and just do nothing after work yet want to 'relax' on the weekends.
My ex was as mad for it as me but we don't really get on any more.
My climbing friends are just that, we don't really have a relationship outside of organised climbs. And it's usually meet at the crag and separate at the crag. Plus the majority want to stick to safe routes with a thousands log entries whereas I love the esoteric.
My non climbing friends just stay on the same city streets, go to the same pubs or have bbq's in the same parks with zero sense of adventure, stuff I'm not interested in, and when things are going on, it's assumed i'm on some climbing trip so I'm never alerted.
Has anyone else ever found themselves in this position? What's the best way to move forward, I meet new climbers all the time but it rarely leaves the crag-only friendship realm. I'm not the most social of people but I need friends like everyone else!
