I now have zero irl friends; how bout you?

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i have one IRL friend

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I don’t have any friends, and I prefer it this way.

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I don’t have any friends either. Lots of people that I know and acquaintances. Ideally I like two or three friends and someone to play monopoly with.

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I have a couple of friends that go to my church

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I have no irl friends. I 'm struggling to think of any I’ve had in the 67 years I’ve been alive. They say first impressions people have of you matter, how you come across in the first few minutes of interacting with someone = whether you’ll be liked or not. I fail that test. I’d very probably fail it if I saw any of you irl. I’ve tried from time to time to be more social. All have been varying degrees of failure. Although quite asocial I’m not totally so. Being rejected again and again and again… is a hurtful experience.

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I have trust issues and very good reasons for that

Not had a IRL friend for a decade

A few family members

Mental health workers try and act like a friend but I have my pride to put above people paid to act like compassionate people you can trust

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I have several friends… but no BFF or something,
I crave friendships but I am not always successful with them.

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I’m sorry @SacredNeigh7 I feel your pain. I would like to consider you a friend. ? As one outcast to another?

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I’m so sorry @firemonkey. I know what it’s like to be repeatedly rejected and hated on by everyone. I would like to consider you a friend. ? As one outcast to another?

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That’s fine for me.

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I have four close friends I still see and talk to from college days…in the eighties so we are all older now…I’m the oldest…I was five years older than my friends in college…I went to college late. and it took me a long time to graduate…seven years…put myself through college was why.

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Awesome!:love_you_gesture:t4::pray:t4:

Friends it is.:slightly_smiling_face:

Thank you @SkinnyMe .

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I have friends in my country… it is hard to make friends where I am irl.

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And you may DM me anytime @SacredNeigh7. Especially if you’re going through hard times with the haters.

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You may DM me anytime @firemonkey , if you would like.

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It depends on what you mean by the word “friend”. A couple of my long term friends died on me a good while ago. They were drinking buddies. The bond of that is so much stronger than you’d think. Now I don’t really have any close friends. In a way it is good, because it gives me more time to think. One of my drinking buddies went out in a kind of grisly way. The world just caught him in a bad way.

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I am so prone to get in relationships with drinking buddies. I remember a long time ago several of us had bought beer, and this guy held up a can and said, “To friendship”, and we all toasted each other, because of the warmth of the situation. I have been through enough bad drunks, though, to know how short lived that friendly feeling is.

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I think that as long as you respect each other’s boundaries friendship is cool. It depends on a lot of things.

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I have six friends that I talk to but see on rare occasion. Talk to two weekly and the others from time to time.

One friend locally, one a couple hours away, one a plane flight away, and a three overseas which are like family. They get busy with their families, and I think I’ve finally worked out being a good friend.

There are a lot of other people around here I was friends with before going coocoo for cocoa puffs, but haven’t reached out to any of them since.

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I don’t socialize with anyone. I want to but I can’t. I can’t handle the “what’s wrong with you” moments.

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