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slightlv

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4. I always have said I consider 4 leggeds to be much better company than 2-leggeds!

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 04:14 PM

Dec 2025

Having said that, I have a very few extremely close friendships. If you do it right, friendships are as difficult to maintain as marriages. I don't see how I could have a ton of good friends; I don't have that much time or energy to invest in a bunch of people. BUT... our small little cadre branches out, and so I have a lot of associates that are all but friends. People I enjoy seeing or talking with at gatherings, but that I wouldn't speak anything private to them.

Suits me just fine. These days, my circle has ramped down very small. The girlfriends I had that were really close to me either have disabilities like mine and are thus impeded from getting out or doing anything much... or they've already died. At my time of life, we lose more than we gain, it seems...

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If you have no or few friends, you are not broken. You are yourself. And that's not a bad thing. [View all] CousinIT Dec 2025 OP

Thanks MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #1

You're fine, but the videos on that channel are made with AI. See reply 17. highplainsdem Dec 2025 #19

thanks for this...me in a nutshell N/T dwp6577 Dec 2025 #2

Anymore I tend to like dogs better than a lot of people. groundloop Dec 2025 #3

I have a little plaque in my house that says: CousinIT Dec 2025 #16

I always have said I consider 4 leggeds to be much better company than 2-leggeds! slightlv Dec 2025 #4

It's better to be alone than to be with someone and wishing you were alone. mobeau69 Dec 2025 #5

Isn't that the truth MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #6

Absolutely. n/t CousinIT Dec 2025 #11

"I used to think the worst thing In life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing In life is ending up sop Dec 2025 #29

I Had 5 Friends As Of July. Then One Died. Another Has .... ColoringFool Dec 2025 #7

I only have a few friends, but they're good ones. MIButterfly Dec 2025 #8

I used to be a lot more gregarious BaronChocula Dec 2025 #9

First, Sing it, Zackzzzz Dec 2025 #10

No friends, that's me but I'm good with it. 🙂 nt Raine Dec 2025 #12

I had good friends before COVID. ananda Dec 2025 #13

glurge WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2025 #14

The entire channel is apparently AI-generated. See reply 17. highplainsdem Dec 2025 #18

I'm saying WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2025 #20

I wasn't sure exactly how to read "glurge" but it could be a drowning-in-AI-slop noise. And YouTube highplainsdem Dec 2025 #21

Glurge is a pre-AI term for slop. There were plenty of memes in FB's heydey that told people how very special they were WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2025 #22

Thanks! I hadn't run across that term before. I thought you might have meant a glug-like sound. highplainsdem Dec 2025 #24

It came up in the 90s to describe those ridiculous forwarded emails about fake uplifting stories and is being used WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2025 #30

I really hadn't seen it used before. But I have minimal contact with Facebook, and I hadn't run across highplainsdem Dec 2025 #33

Post.Of.The.Day WarGamer Dec 2025 #15

The videos on that YouTube channel are made with AI, probably with the script written by AI. NOT highplainsdem Dec 2025 #17

This video produced by AI or not Mossfern Dec 2025 #23

It's important that people who are neurodivergent are understood by others, and that they understand highplainsdem Dec 2025 #25

The video, AI generated or not, does not say anything that is not true. CousinIT Dec 2025 #28

It does show a bias against extroverts and people who have a lot of friends, and that's divisive and highplainsdem Dec 2025 #31

So true 😁 my cats are my best friends and I'm happy 😁 TommieMommy Dec 2025 #26

Thank you wendyb-NC Dec 2025 #27

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