We’ve all felt lonely, right? Or maybe you’re one of the lucky few blessed with many, loyal companions? So lucky, you won’t recognise the signs below:
- Denial – (Phone conversation) “Karen, let’s meet up for drinks, I have so much gossip to tell you” – when the reality is, it’s your credit card company on the other end. Oops!
- The ‘I don’t need friends’ stage also known as the narcissistic, angry phase. We’ve all been guilty of calling our acquaintances dicks from time to time
- The ‘getting too needy towards your partner’ stage. “Honeypie, tell me you love me again please, please, pretty please?”
N.B: This differs if you’re single, then it would be the ‘sleeping around’ stage, to fill the hole (not literally) in your life of having no friends. I know this all too well. - Sadness central (and no not to be confused with Belfast Central….JOKES). This is the shittest stage of all. We cry in our beds, pondering over photos on social media of past nights out with folk we thought were our pals. Isn’t that being a little obsessive?
- The ‘realising we need to move on and find new friends’ stage
- The ‘joining a gym, yoga class, uni society and volunteering’ phase and finding like minded people to finally go out with and call REAL pals
- The ‘happiness’ stage. Everything in your life is fucking amazing….you have a great partner, a fabulous job and the tightest squad in town that could take out Taylor’s!
But having no friends isn’t always a bad thing, according to this great man:
No Boundaries 