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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I hear is that I deserve to be alone because I'm weird and don't fit in. Which I guess I needed to know. Thanks for thr tough love.[/quote]

You are hearing what you want to hear. Zero people have said that you deserve to be alone.

You are taking something personally that is not a personal slight against you. If you want to have actual relationships with your colleagues, you have to participate in creating them.

Work colleagues didn't hang out and socialize before the pandemic? That's how it was at my office too. We used to "socialize" via the weekly staff meetings we had, pickup lunch meetings, grabbing coffee. It was not deeply intense and personal and wasn't usually planned in advance, but there was a feeling of camaraderie that vanished when those opportunities did. We handled the loss of community by coming up with other plans, like socially distant happy hour in someone's yard, or lunch at a park, or Zoom happy hours.

You don't deserve to be alone, but it is also not reasonable to expect other people to create a social life for you. You got out of this situation exactly what you put into it. Quit being a martyr about it.[/quote]

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