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Psychology says adults who have no close friends aren’t necessarily antisocial or unlikable. Many of them learned in childhood that being vulnerable leads to pain, and they grew up assuming that keeping people at a distance is safer

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Psychology says adults who have no close friends aren’t necessarily antisocial or unlikable. Many of them learned in childhood that being vulnerable leads to pain, and they grew up assuming that keeping people at a distance is safer
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Honestly, I’ve been thinking about a friend of mine lately. Let’s call him Matt. Matt’s the kind of guy everyone likes at a barbecue — funny, easy to talk to, remembers your kids’ names. But I realised the other day that in fifteen years, I’ve never once seen him ask anyone for help. Not once. And then I caught myself doing the exact same thing last Tuesday, sitting in my car after a rough day, scrolling past every contact in my phone because none of them felt like

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