Are there any nice people in the world??? Well, maybe "nice" is the wrong word...people who are compatible with me (can you say that?). I only have 2 friends that I really really like and who like me, whereas whenever I meet someone new, it starts out quite promising but something always bothers me about them and vice versa.

(I have posted this in another thread, but I think it deserves its own thread).

I've had this problem of late...although the few friends that I did have, have distanced from me.
So my reaction lately has been to block off almost everyone...but I'm kinda lonely. (in the friend department that is)

I have the same problem. I have two friends counting my boyfriend and both of them live on the other side of the country. But it's not that people bother me...I never really meet anyone to become friends with. I talk to people in class and club and stuff but the only person I've gone out with since I've been here was a guy I met at the gym and he turned out to be really annoying. My college is kind of cliquish, not in the sense that the different groups don't like each other, just that people have their own groups of friends, either people they live near (a huge amount are from around the area) and have known forever or people from the dorms. People aren't that social or open, they don't just meet each other and hang out unless it's a date. Plus I rarely meet anyone whose company I enjoy enough to prefer hanging out with them to being alone. I get bored being alone sometimes but it beats being around someone I don't like that much.

This happens to me all the time as well. I don't know, when you've been treated like crap by a lot of people you kind of come to expect it and never let your guard down. That's me defined, anyway.

I have very few friends as well, as I find it really hard to trust people. I think it gets harder once you reach a certain age and you can't be bothered anymore. I mean, the friends that I do have now are all overseas at the moment, and I cut off contact with a lot of people in 2005, for various reasons.

I would say that you should maybe let your guard down more...heh, it's kind of hard giving advice when I have the same problem. It's not something I'm desperate to fix though, but being alone all the time isn't all that fun.

I've had periods of time where I knew a lot of people, and thought they were my friends, because we had a lot in common.
But than I got sick, and never heard from them again.
I lost all my "friends" and just receintly have made a few new ones, but they are real friends.
They are there if I'm in a good mood, or in a bad mood, they are always there.
I can call them, and no matter where they are, they'll come over if I need them.
That's much more valuble than having masses of folks who you have things in common with.
Sorry if I sound like an old fart, but I'd rather have 3 close, good, real friends, than 20 people I have things in common with, but who aren't there when you really need them.