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Connecting with people is easy. Maintaining connections is the real challenge.

I find it quite easy to make friends...and find it quite hard to, like, compute that there are people out there that dislike me.

Friendship, for me, is a mutual thing. It's symbiotic. It ebbs and flows. The energy between 2 or more people. It's a mutual respect, a mutual connection. It's about feeling safe and being listened to. It can run the gamut of emotions but knowing that there's unconditional positive regard and love there. It's about sharing experiences.

Above all though, it's about having fun and it's one of the best things about mankind and the human condition.

Sarah 💋

Friendship means you never sell out your homeboy or homegirl. You are there and you're committed to the platonic relationship established through good times and bad times.

I used to in the beginning..i don't so much now but i still tend to keep myself to myself..
I've made myself to available in the past and that gave them the chance to take advantage.

Not really.

But I can’t maintain connections for long.

I always have. Friendship to me would mean loyalty and support, common ground and respect. I never found that though.

When I was young I had little.opportunity to connectveith anyone as i was living on a small farm back.in the woods surrounded by miles of dense swamp. Dad had anger issues so talking to him was difficult. In talking to my ex yesterday I realized that it was her anger that exploded out of her after she recalled being abused by an older brother and possibly her father starting at age 4 that probably split us up. I could not be around that anymore, nor could our son.

Id say more often then not I connect well to people, but the issue is it's rarely reciprocated.

I'd say 90% of people wouldn't reach out or care unless my absence effected them.....

Be if gifts, advice, care whatever.....not that it's hate just indifference.

Brind bread to ducks at a park they follow, stop bringing it and they stop going by you.

Ideally find other people who feed ducks....odd metaphor but I think it conveys the message

I'm not sure what exactly people mean by being connected. Most seem to think it's simply to be able to get along with others, I'd think it's when you can talk without words, when you both have similar thought processes, so only one look is enough to understand. And I think that only happens when you spend a lot of time with someone.

Yes, of course I had difficulty connecting with others.

Yeah. People are just people. Meh. 🤷‍♂

pretty much all the time.

Never. It's so easy to connect with people especially online. Friendship basically means not just acquaintance with purpose, but an involved relationship.. a soul connection that does not part until death.

ALWAYS, never got along with humans, so kinda neutral instead I do LOVE since I don't get the difference when best friends not sure it's normal or what your looking to hear.😭

I think if it's difficult give it away... That's not how it's supposed to work... Friends should be like a worn in pair of shoes... Comfortable and making life more pleasant

Friendship to me means someone who accepts you for who you are, enjoys your company, listens to what you say, and feels free enough to be themselves around you.

I don't seem to click with most people. Friendship is mutual positive regard and keeping of trust and loyalty in which two people make each other better.

Trust, honest, respect, empathy, Basically everything you expect from a relationship minus the romantic intimacy and sex/love.

Yep. Seeing good in everyone and it only makes it worse for myself.
Edit- shortened message because I don't want to stress anyone

I can connect with the right kind of people. But there are a whole lot of the wrong kind of people out there.

No, not really but if the vibes are off then they will become far away. Because I will avoid them at all costs

I'm not looking to connect with anyone anymore...it's not something I seek out

I’ve only connected with two people my whole adult life

Things tend to fizzle out

Connected

Definitely. To me friendship is a bond of trust and camaraderie. Someone you are willing to be there for knowing they will be there for you as well. The challenge is funding enough in common with someone to spend enough time getting to know and trust them well enough for that bond to be forged.

I connect with many but I don't have a beat friend or bunch of friends.
I guess nobody wants a long term. I do have a pen pal tho for 15 years

Have I ever had difficulty connecting with people? No, not ever. I have been extremely extroverted all my life to a fault, which I've been told by some who think they know me better than I know myself.

Friendship to me is permanent, even if the other person gets pissed off and doesn't think the same way I do about our friendship. That is why I never shed old friends for new ones, nor did I ever banish boyfriends to the hinterlands when they did me wrong as a dating teenager.

Any guy I have ever dated, I am still friends with today and can pick up the phone and call them anytime. I have never dumped a boyfriend but I've always had many boyfriends whom I've dated synchronously, which most guys cannot handle. That is all about them, not about me!

The same applies to female friends I've made since grade school, some of whom are extremely jealous of me today for no apparent reason. Yet I remind them whenever I see them in my old home town that I am still their friend and they have no valid reason to be jealous of me today.