Is it normal that i don't talk to my friends for weeks to months?

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firstly, i LOVE my friends and they love me so the problem really isn't them or our friendship.

so i'm not good at social media, meaning i can browse through it for hours but not even look at people's messages. my preferred method of communication is face-to-face and in person. i'm bad at chatting and i feel like the other person is always carrying the conversation.

that said, with the whole covid thing, i can't see any of my friends (a lot of them are in another continent too) and so i haven't talked to them in like 8 months?

they hit me up recently saying they thought i was dead and i did tell the truth that i was depressed, felt like they didn't need me anymore and they seem to be doing fine without me so i deleted social media. they reassured me saying that they missed me and they are always thinking about me and we got to catch up for a bit and it was all fun until we planned to facetime.

i recognized the feeling of paranoia telling me that they're gonna drop me as a friend or scold me or idk! so now, days have gone by since we planned it and i feel like im going back into this hole of isolation AGAIN and never come back. is this normal? lmao am i mentally ill

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  • ellnell
    3 years ago

    Yeah I don't talk to my friends that often either. It changes in periods though. I have one friend who can take 1 month or more to reply to a text but he's got pretty low social battery and that is something I can relate to pretty well. We send each other very long messages instead when we do talk and try to hang out as often as we can but right now it's hard due to covid, travelling is such a risk. I believe that your real friends stick around either way and doesn't take personal offence to it if you have a small need to socialize and of course finding likeminded friends is a good idea.

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  • Refridgerators
    3 years ago

    A good friend won't abandon you just because you don't talk to them daily. I think you've got more than plenty of time before they even think to drop you.

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