best friends

[MakersDozn]

(10-08-2013, 12:54 AM)nats Wrote: agreeing and recognising a lot of what has been said here. just to add a thought, it's not just internal realities that make friendships hard. we work very hard. we don't have money or time to socialise. we can't expect to have close friendships given these constraints and how busy others are also. we have a number of people we care about and some who do seem to care about us. wouldn't characterise any as 'best' friends as we can't imagine any would think of us that way.

With us, work, commuting, and FOO take up a great deal of our time. "Downtime" or alone-time is a higher priority for us than socializing. And we don't enjoy superficial interactions, or interacting with groups of more than about five people.

If that leaves us out of things, so be it. Thanks for your post.

MDs