Is friendship important to you? How has friendship impacted your life?

@Sandau1968 It sounds like you would be better off finding a group of cancer survivers that meet in your area, where you could go and discuss your condition & what you are going through with people that understand because they have went through it. People can love you and want to be there for you but don't understand it if they haven't dealt with it in anywhere before, don't know how. Then if you have a place to go for the cancer, you can let your family relations go back to normal. They won't feel uncomfortable talking about somthing they don'y know about. Once your relations are back to precencer, you can maybe start sharing more but maybe some people just are uncapable of knowing or giving what you need for support.

@Sandau1968 Hi Sandau, I took a look at your profile and saw you have MS. I'm sorry you're dealing with that and are feeling misunderstood. Take a look at the forums dedicated to MS and comment on things that interest you or create your own conversations to talk. For me when I'm feeling down and alone, it really helps me to just open myself up and talk. Maybe that can help you. I obviously don't have MS, but this site has been very useful for me in getting support and advice for my chronic pain. Hopefully it can be a good resource for you. Wish you all the best.

  You can never have too many friends, but you have good friends and bad friends. I had a few in my life that I thought were good friends. But turned out to be my friend because they needed something from me.

     I dated someone that we were friends at a place I worked at, we talked and hung out and all. I quit the job and became a truck driver, we started back talking after a death in the family, and we became close.

    I guess I wanted more than what she wanted to offer, I thought we were made for each other  , I enjoyed the time we spent together  when I had home time. But because I was a truck driver. She did not want to get married, but I was good enough to go on trips with her, and go on a cruise. And I always helped her with her bills.

     I lost my job, and it took awhile for me to find another job, and I stayed with her, I looked for different companies every day and put in applications,  and I felt like I was not wanted around because I did not have a job.

     I found a job, and went thru orientation,  and training. And after a few weeks I got a message asking me for help.  It made me realize that the only thing she wanted me for was money.   I blocked her on every aspect  of communication.  I rather be alone than to be used.  So you got to choose your friends wisely 

I have a couple of good friends without them I would have given up a long time ago. Their encouragement and kind words mean the world to me. 

Friends are everything. Sometimes you can feel like you can't exactly say everything you want to with family, it's almost like it's too close or sometimes you just want to complain about your family . For me that's where my friends are essential - I can tell them every and confide in them in a way that I just can't with my family. I really value that. 

I  don't seem to make friends easily and now with the pandemic, it's even worse and I work in an essential business so I have to be there, my psoriasis seems to have gotten worse (it has now covered about 50% of my back and itches and hurts more) due to the stress as well as having switched (not by my choice) to doing my classes online, 

    I got friends in low places

well I dont have any friends because I have never found one that I could trust or confide in they always let me down talk a bout me judge me criticize me or hurt me also when I call on them help they turn there back on me I was best friends with a girl for fifteen years and I was going through a abusive physically and mentally she knew all about it I must say this before continuing while she going through problems in her love life I was right there to comfort her and listening backing her all way long story short I reached out for help not only she only hangout me when she needed her hair done or just bored and talk and pick on me she turn her back on me while I was getting beat up by my ex all time so after that I was done being best friends or friends period point  blank that's just one situation I when though on having friends another situation was this girl I did all kinds of stuff to help her and baby sit her kids she didn't waste time talking about me lying me and than some even trying to seduce my husband so I'm sorry I have had multiple friends and it never works me I can't just can't seem to trust them at all it's bad how cruel a friend can really  be when you have a good heart and will do whatever you can to help them or try to brighten there day it hard 

Friends are so important to me. They alway manage to cheer me up and keep me going even when I'm in the worst pain. 

I agree with you Tisha, most of those in my life have let me down or somehow not turned out to be a real friend. I have been lucky enough to still have a cpl friends, but because I have moved away from them, they are not able to be around when I need them. Right now I am looking for a new best friend/partner/lover been 5 years and still haven't been able to find one. My condition isn't helping matters either. I miss the intimacy mostly, cuz I can get the other, as far as a friend, they just have to happen I guess, can't go to the friend store and pick one up, I am positive that they are our there somewhere, lets hope that we find one soon.