It’s definitely negative assertion and especially relationship initiation skills for me . I haven’t got a clue how to initiate social contact with anyone. Then if someone was to approach me there is the issue of sustaining contact and knowing how to be to achieve that without becoming emotionally and mentally stressed and overwhelmed.
I heard in my communications class that lonely people die younger because the immune system isn’t getting exercised when we are alone. And there is a part of the immune system that works when we are engaged in social situations and the hypothesis from that is that it helped when our ancestors began to form groups because it helped us resist diseases that other group members brought with them.
Thanks for the article @firemonkey