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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks, OP, for posting this. My kids and one of DH's friends asked me why I don't have any friends. Frankly, I've stopped trying to figure out whether it's them or me. I really don't want to dwell on it. I've also stopped trying to forge close friendships. I've tried in the past and the rejection is pretty painful, particularly from the ones that cut off all contact without any kind of explanation.

There have even been a few women at church or my kid's school that have started conversations with me in the past or  introduced themselves only later to act like they don't know me or have ever seen me before. I honestly don't get it.

I think men have it so much easier with friends. They are much more forgiving of each other. And I think women are much more forgiving of men than they are of other women. [/quote]

I definitely can relate. I have lived in the US, UK and Asia for the last 15 years. US is the only place where consistently people would act friendly and start a conversation with me, and then the next time act like they don't know me. Perhaps they are just being friendly the first time. But in the UK and Asia, if they don't care about you, they just don't talk to you. But once they do, they don't act like they don't know me the next time.  [/quote]

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