Building Chosen Family

Hi,

I have struggled a lot with toxic parents (due to issues mainly separate from my sexuality but they weren't the most supportive of that either). Now that I am older, I am able to work and live on my own, but I am really struggling with feeling very alone and lacking familial-type support, both just emotionally but actually primarily in terms of having support in learning aspects of how to be an adult like handling finances, maintaining my car, organization, etc. I mean I am doing ok at those things enough to get by but I feel very alone in it and have anxiety about the aspects I don't understand.

I would really like to hear from others who feel they have a "chosen" family and how you built that. Did you meet them through a community center or do they consist of a partner(s) plus some close friends or housemates?

Thanks,

Day