Is it normal to just abandoning your friends all of the sudden

I sometimes have this strange urge to just stop meeting or talking and just cut all connection with all of my friends for even just a few months. I've done it for a whole week couple of times and when they call or email or whatever I don't get back to them. I feel like I don't need friends or I don't want any, and like through out my life I never had a best friend, had couple of good friends but never a best friend. So I don't know if it's just being too independent or is it antisocial of me? Is it normal to feel this way?

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Based on 308 votes (236 yes)
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  • PoisonFlowers

    I'm shocked that so many other people do this. I thought I was just really abnormal with relationships, because I keep on doing this! I can't help it either and I feel like a really crappy friend.
    I just find it so easy to isolate myself even though I know that it'll make me feel like shit.

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  • TheJackel

    Woow this app really does this work wonders sometimes. I've gone through what you and others like poisonflower have gone through and thought I was just a young dumb guy acting a fool. But I knew there was something deeper. Thanks for asking this question!!

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  • silentnachos

    Actually what you have is not that different from me. What that is that you have is you just want to be left alone like in a bubble. I get realy irritated at my own life and sometimes wish that I could have a stand still in my own bed and wake up three years later and start fresh.

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  • x6tence

    ya def,used to do n feel the same way,sometimes they r jus too much effort n actually boring the shit outta u, but it`s like u having fun urself at first instance,in the end u know urself tho u having more fun jus being alone n chilling,even tho most of the ppl r jus getting pissed at that,
    another thing could be its jus ur personality that u cant rly trust em,like fear of rejection so called n u cant be urself when ur with em
    took me some time to figure that out haha

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  • Punk22

    thnx u guys for ur comments, very much appreciated :)

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  • pitapocket

    i've done this soooo many times! i'm prbly a lot older than you, and my REAL FRIENDS understand. i've blown people off for like, two years at a time. then, when i'm ready and i need them, i find the few that are still there for me. and they'll tell you (constantly!)what it was like for them to worry and wonder about you. i think you're alright

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  • needadvice

    AHHH this is exactly what I do! I thought I was the only one.. Sometimes I just cut off connection with my friends, don't want to talk to them or hang out with them. I just want to be by myself. Then I will go back to hanging out with them.. then the cycle happens again! I don't know why.. its just like I want to be by myself. And often I find my friends disappoint me.. I don't really know how to explain it. It just make me feel like a really bad friend. Right now i'm kind of avoiding everyone actually, I know it's not fair to them, but I cant help it.

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  • JcleodX

    bro you have no idea how normal that is well unless you dont have a artistic bone in your body but i have a very imaginative spirit and i use it as an outburst for my drawings or anything playing guitar as long as you have that imaginative spirit you'll keep the fountain of youth

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  • i have some friends dat have felt the same way but we go out and party and they all of a sudden turn into dis other out goin person you should try it some time
    good luck

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    • Punk22

      Thnx! ya i try to that sometimes :)

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  • Pinger

    nope, not really normal. Its one thing to like peace and quite...or even taking a vacation by yourself, but you'll get bored.

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    • Punk22

      well, im gonna take a 3 months vacation so i not gonna be in touch anyway.. once i get back i can know how my friendship stand with them i guess

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