I don’t think I really have any person that I confide in with. I have friends and family, but I don’t really call people up and talk with them for hours, or play any video games with people. I’m introverted and a very solitary person. I do have my weekly social events where I do socialize with people in person, but I have no will to do so virtually.
But I do get jealous sometimes hearing about what people are up to independently.
I just don’t think I have any person that I would necessarily classify as a “best friend” at the moment, a person who I shared my “everything” with. My person anxieties, goals, desires, fears, concerns, etc. Or someone who I bounce ideas off of or stumble with.
How many of you guys have someone like that?
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I have multiple close friends, but I’m not sure who I would call my best friend at the moment.
Whoever it is, I don’t think I’m their best friend.
But like I said, I have several choose friends, in whom I could confide (within reason).
I’m also 40-something dude. We can bitch about work or voice general misgivings about a situation, but I’m general it’s not social acceptable for a guy my age to talk about personal fears in a real, applied way, especially if that involves some kind of emotional struggle.
So I can talk about the fact that they’re restructuring my team at work again, and even that I suspect they might eliminate my job, but it’s not okay for me to talk about how I’m afraid that if I lose my job I won’t be able to take my son on the fishing trip I promised him for his 13th birthday.