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I have a male friend (we dated in high school, it’s been 20 years since then) who went this way. I remember even as teens, he’d complain that his friends don’t get him. But they “were friends since kindergarten” and sunk cost fallacy prevented him from reaching out to new people.

Today he’s a father and it’s even harder to make friends. I feel for him. He doesn’t talk with the friends from high school anymore, and laments the paths in life they’d chosen since. It just sucks, because I’d been encouraging him to get to know new people since the days we dated, but he didn’t practice then and has no idea what to do now.