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Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 16, 2025

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What are your friendships like these days?

Do you have a "best friend?" What is he or she like?

Do you spend much time with your friends? Are you trying to make more?

I have not had any "real" friends other than my wife (who I met 6 years ago) since I finished undergrad 10 years ago. I'm really bad at making new friends, or keeping in touch with old ones. I have some friends from highschool and undergrad who I would like to hang out with, but they live super far away and I'm too lazy to travel.

I spend tons of time with my wife. We talk, play games, live life. She has some casual friends who we sometimes play board games with, who I guess I would consider casual friends of mine...? We also live in the same town as most of her family and do like family gatherings and stuff semi-regularly, but they're kind of normies who do stupid things for fun that I don't want to do (but begrudgingly do anyway).

On a theoretical level it'd be nice to have another friend or two outside my wife, but I've never made a friend on purpose, it always just kind of happened. And I'm not sure I care enough to jump through whatever hoops that would have to take and sacrifice a bunch of free time on not being home. I like being home.

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