u/ihateidli

Why is making friends so hard?

I am 24F and I have been facing some trouble with making friends ever since I joined college. (Currently in final year) I don’t have issues with talking to people but I can be socially awkward or clumsy. Yet I really try to make friends.

It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are 150 people in my batch and being a dayscholar doesn't help my situation at all. People are exclusive and when I call them out on their behavior, they call me a liar, too intense and too sensitive.

I have tried to insert myself in convos, tried engaging in practicals with my batchmates and have tried to talk to them. I have heard people call me weird in my batch... so that's there.

If there are any tips on how to handle this issue, can I get some reasonable ones? I don't want to change myself to belong to a clique since group dynamics are shit... but how to build a reliable friendship with someone?

Why is making friends so hard?

I am 24F and I have been facing some trouble with making friends ever since I joined college. (Currently in final year) I don’t have issues with talking to people but I can be socially awkward or clumsy. Yet I really try to make friends.

It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are 150 people in my batch and being a dayscholar doesn't help my situation at all. People are exclusive and when I call them out on their behavior, they call me a liar, too intense and too sensitive.

I have tried to insert myself in convos, tried engaging in practicals with my batchmates and have tried to talk to them. I have heard people call me weird in my batch... so that's there.

If there are any tips on how to handle this issue, can I get some reasonable ones? I don't want to change myself to belong to a clique since group dynamics are shit... but how to build a reliable friendship with someone?

Hello to all the incredible women and men,

I am a 24-year-old woman and the only child of my parents. I recently came out of a bad breakup and am still trying to move on. The breakup shattered the way I look at relationships and completely altered my emotional state. My mother suffers from rheumatic heart disease, and I am pretty much the only support system for my parents. My paternal family is not very supportive, and my maternal family lives far away. After the breakup, I have been finding it difficult to move on and stabilize myself emotionally. I feel like I cannot fight through life all by myself, but at the same time, I have become skeptical about love and relationships. I am very close to my mother, so I often get negative thoughts like, “when she passes away, I will have nobody,” especially since I am not very close with my father.

How do I deal with this?