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I think we are drifting apart and it's breaking my heart (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not sure if this is where I should post this. I just gotta put this out there, somewhere, anywhere.

My best friend since before COVID barely calls anymore. If I want to speak to her, I’m the one that has to initiate that conversation. We’ve gone many days between even a text, unless I again initiate it. We used to be so close. But now I see how close she is with her new friends and cannot help but feel left out. There’s so many times that I’ve felt left out, or forgotten about. I just feel so alone.

They all kind of ditched me to go to the casino tonight. We were all together and they just abruptly decided to leave. I’m not surprised as they excluded me for half of the party anyways. They can all speak English just fine but speak Vietnamese, which I can barely understand. I understand why they prefer to speak it, but it wasn’t always this way. They used to speak English so that I could contribute to the conversation, but now not at all (I’m not exaggerating)

I’m staying over at her place this weekend so I went back to her house alone. My eyes feel a bit raw from how much I’ve been crying since I got here.

So alone. So much for a big sis.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think you still have a friend. But you should have more friends, so you're not so dependent on a single friend. If you have a rich menu of people you can spend time with, when one person isn't available, or not receptive, shouldn't be a big deal.

It is difficult to make friends as an adult, especially when you don't have any free time. If you're just sleeping, going to work, and eating. It's hard to find activities where new people are available. But it's worth it. Join a club, improv group, something that you actually get face to face interaction of people. And slowly add some friends to your roster.