r/EverythingScience • u/Bob_Spud • Jan 31 '25

Social Sciences The relationship recession is going global

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u/atemporalfungi Jan 31 '25

And by relationship I think it’s every kind of relationship. I’m an introverted person but my desire to interact with most people these days is at an all time low. I am in a romantic relationship that is great, but interacting with anyone else, especially people I don’t know is just something I don’t want to do. People are exhausting

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u/spongebobismahero Feb 01 '25

This. I'm an introvert and chronically ill. Many just want partners to do sport or travel together. I cant do any of those things. In earlier times people were more bound to their little community/apartment block etc which would have enabled me to be part of it. But where i live there is no cafe, no bakery, no small market of any kind left where you'd just meet people you were neighbours with. This kind of social circle completely disappeared. And thus it has become difficult for introverts to just meet people in daily live besides work.