Why is it so hard to have friends who don't just abandon you the minute you have a rough time?

There have been many times when I have looked around me and thought, wow, I have a really good support network....but it's not real. People are all talk it seems.

Maybe I just don't know what people want 🤷‍♀️ Just the good bits, it seems.

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SW-User

It is the basic human nature to jump a sinking ship but people forget that the ship can be built again and it didnt have feelings but a human do I help out people regardless of the fact Will they do the same for me so in years I finally after a gazillion setbacks have estabilished a core group where we stand together till death do us apart keep trying a good soul such yours will eventually find its group

HoeBag · 51-55, F

@SW-User Seems like the older we get though the harder it is to find or build friendships.

Partly because we get set in our routines and even when we do have time, we just want to relax instead of having social obligations.

I am guilty of it too.

KuroNeko · 41-45, F

@HoeBag Having kids also makes it hard. Those without kids sometimes fail to understand the drain it can be on a persons time.

HoeBag · 51-55, F

@KuroNeko My son is 24 and lives in another state but oh yeah, I remember what it was like when he was little.

SW-User

@HoeBag yeah but everyone needs someone age and kids do trouble you but there are people like you who think the best of you