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apathy in friendships
I consider myself someone compassionate and empathic most of the time, towards a lot of topics too. but when it comes to personal connections and friendships, I feel awfully unable to get attached to anyone, in fact, I get very uncomfortable when someone tries to get too close to me, I feel often incapable of feeling regret, sadness, or guilty for a relationship that I ended, most of the time, any of those feelings are mostly because a relationship I had affected *other* people, not myself or the person involved with me,,
does anyone feel like that? friendships are so hard to keep when you're just constantly uninterested in shit and you have to take it because you don't want to upset anyone...
I kind of have a similar issue where i literally do not miss people like at all at most sometimes I wonder if they're alive and well and then forget about their existence idk why. Might have to look into a ADHD diagnosis or something 2 reply
You're not alone, I have the same thing. I also consider myself emotionally intelligent because I am. I'm very understanding when it comes to certain topics and groups of people, but I struggle with human connection like hell. I don't certainly know what might have caused these attachment issues but I literally can't get close to anyone for whateve...... reply
i would not say im cold or smt like that toward my friends, i really like them and when i trust them we tell each others everything, i share everything with my best friend she's amazing, but if i dont have a very deep, deep, DEEP relation with someone i will not come for them myself, i mean i wont send the first text or things like that, and not be...... reply
Same, I don't know if they treat me as a friend, but to me, they're acquaintances at best, like yes, in junior highschool I hang out with them all the time but after that it's whatever. Same situation with senior high school and college. I never have "permanent" friends to consider. I never call nor message them, I don't bother contacting them at a...... reply
I have experienced something not the same but similar in feeling disconnected from those around me that are meant to be my closest friends. Me personally, it’s because I tend to perform to please the other person for others and thus the connection I build ends up feeling inauthentic from my end. This is entirely my own fault but it leads to me be...... reply
