Fitting in
I don't, generally not at all, not anywhere, and not with anyone. Not on purpose, mind you, it's just never been a thing I've been good at, or terribly interested in. My partner and I work because she has the same problem, and yet we fit together very well in ways that make most people tilt their heads and drool a little. So when we go out to social functions where we don't know anyone, we usually end up sitting alone until we get bored and decide to leave.
Compound all of this with the fact that I am a male witch about to roll into my 50s. The overwhelming majority of the groups I've found online, and in my area, are either exclusively women, with an understandable hesitance to allow men into their circles, or they're all 20 years younger than me and I feel like the creepy old guy trying to perv on young women. Because of this, I've never even approached the in-person groups I've found, and the online groups have been very tough to engage with.
I've found that most people dipping their toes into witchcraft are also people that generally have a difficult time fitting in anywhere else. Witchcraft is a very personal religion, with a lot of room for improvisation, and lends itself quite well to that demographic.
All of this to say that I'm trying to reach out, and make friends, but trying to do so among the older crowd, or at least where I can find them.
-Tom Blueleaf