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Not good at keeping friends

Discussion in 'Family, Friends, and Relationships' started by JayR, Sep 27, 2013.

  1. JayR

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    I'm an introvert guy, but not antisocial. It's different.A lot of my old friends have pretty much became strangers. I blame myself for being not so good at communicating with them. I tend to be independent and I don't like the idea of being dependent to others that much. This involves my high school friends. After our graduation, I barely communicated with them. Now I miss them a lot, and I don't know how to rekindle our friendship. We're all in different colleges now so I understand if they excuse themselves for being busy. I have my own college friends now, but I still wanna be friends with them, and i regret for letting them drift away. Especially one of them was my best friend, now it's been almost a year, and we didn't even chat,text or call. Not even once. So I think it would awkward for both of us. I miss them so much.
    I also have this feeling that they're ignoring me a lot lately.
    Any advice?
     
  2. Saint Otaku

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    I'm in the same boat, so i'm here to empathize, not to give advice. In my experience, I can't help but have friends float away, and I feel like it's beginning to happen with my current cycle of friends, for they're becoming ridiculously zealous in their beliefs and extremely critical of mine, but I haven't enough heart to talk to them about it.

    I've had many friends move away and it seems like that's just how it goes -- we just have to keep moving also. I think my problem, and possibly yours, is that we need the physical presence to bond with people, so when they stretch in distance, so the friendship also stretches. I do miss them all though... :/
     
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    Text them, talk to them online, organise to do something, or just in general put it on yourself to try to reconnect with them and keep it up; ignore the fact it may be awkward you're going to regret not trying in the end way more, I mean you're already regretting not staying in touch. If they seem to avoid you or not put in any effort on their end though you may have to move on.
     
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    Be honest with them and I think they'll get it.