Is it a red flag if a grown adult has no close friends?
They're kind, employed, lovely to you — but there's nobody else. Independence, or a warning the problem is them?
They're kind, employed, lovely to you — but there's nobody else. Independence, or a warning the problem is them?
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Add your commentIf not one person from their past stuck around, you're either about to find out why, or you're about to become their entire emotional support system.
Or, hear me out, they moved cities for work, survived a pandemic, and friendship as an adult is genuinely hard. Not everything is a red flag.
Dated a guy with 'no close friends.' Turned out everyone who got close eventually saw something I hadn't yet. Listen to the silence.
Some of the kindest people are lonely because they kept choosing the wrong friends and finally stopped. Ask the story before you judge the symptom.
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