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courteousBunny8852
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I am horrible at relationships
Relationship Stress / by courteousBunny8852
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 October 3rd, 2025
...See more I have 0 real friends. Or at least I think I don't. Because I have a few "friends" who text me for my birthday but nothing else. My birthday was this Tuesday, so I got an idea of who remembers that I exist.  Going back to middle school and high school, I have never been good at relationships. I stuck with a group of friends that I knew from middle school. But as soon as new friends started joining the group, I started getting outed. When I tried creating my own group, they also outed me. The person who I thought was my best friend said she never saw me that way. And my best friend group, which I also tried to lean to when my other group didn't work out, ended up spending time without me, and I had to find out about it through social media. I was never able to do everything else I was doing because my parents were strict. So I was never able to socialize.  My friend and I grew up until we stopped getting along due to differences in opinion.  My mom leaned on me for emotional support and made me feel bad for ever being born, so it was hard to get along with her. She wasn't a bad mom; she just wasn't emotionally unavailable.  My dad was even worse, emotionally and verbally abusing my siblings and me. And physically abusing my mom.  I feel like I never really trusted anyone.  I started creating friendships at my workplace, but I feel like all of those relationships were circumstantial. We grew apart.  Will I ever find any real friends? Or mend the relationships that are supposed to matter?  
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