Dear Meg,

I too long for a true best friend and someone to talk to about anything.  I thought i had a true best friend but that isn’t so.  I am 55 and realized that past friends, so i thought, just used me.  I can relate to the posts.  I am an introvert so making friends as a child/teenager and even now is very hard and because my parents, when younger, didn’t like the people I hung out with made me stay home alot (if they were fat, poor….. i wasn’t allowed to hang out with them).  I always think something is wrong with me, why do i not have friends?  Found out by one person is because when she asked how i was, i said good and then I talked about a rough patch  my husband and I were going through and they literally came out and said I didnt want to hear all that information well that was the last time person spoke to me.  My husband and daughter don’t even like to do things with me, communication is rare.  Prior to the current unsettling times, I would go shopping a lot, i mean a lot just to get out of the house and be around other people.  I write in a journal when i feel down.  I have accepted the fact that I will never have a true best friend-i feel as though it’s to late.