You're not bad at making friends. You moved away from the environment that was quietly making them for you. Here's how to find your people somewhere new.
The ache is real, and it's not a personal failing. It's a structural one. We built adult life in a way that removed the architecture that made friendship easy — and then looked around and wondered why friendship felt hard.
Men aren't bad at friendship. They lost the shoulder-to-shoulder structures that used to build it. Here's the research on the male friendship recession, and how to actually rebuild your circle.
You're not antisocial. You're anti-small-talk. Here's how introverts actually make real friends... without the mixers, the mingling, or the performing.