Who could you call if you were upset?

[Sarahandduck18]

Just had a random thought that if I was upset and needed/wanted someone to call and speak to over the phone or in person (not text/online) there’s no one that I feel I could ask this of.

I have friends but only have occasional meet ups.

I get on with colleagues but none I’d classas real friends who there’d be contact if one or the other left.

Family is a no.

Is this normal?

Who do you call on?

DH
Mum
Brother
5 best friends
MIL
(Not really in any particular order it would depend on what the problem was)
Me and my 5 best friends generally text/call eachother throughout the day anyway about mundane things we are upto so I don't feel lonely really

My Mum died four weeks ago. I found out that none of my friends here were available. My friends at 'home' where I grew up and my Mum's friends were there for me.

DH
2 long term friends
Brother

I have quite a small circle - I get on well with my family but generally don't discuss things like that with my Mum and Dad - but am actually quite close to DB.

It would depend on what I was upset about tbh - firstly I would try and internalise it and deal with it myself. Would be Ok talking to my boyfriend/partner/other half - not sure what to call him - we've been dating 18 months!

I sometimes talk to my dad as we work together and I know that he wont say anything to anyone if I ask him - used to talk to my mum a lot until I realised that her version of "please don't tell anyone" meant she wouldn't say anything to anyone except my dad, my sisters, her brother, her sister in law and her best friend!!

Only have two people i would call proper friends but they both have their own problems to deal with and I wouldn't feel right loading onto them.

No one. I'm not close to my family in that way. I have good friends but I can't think of one of them I would call or have called in the event of being really upset. I definitely wouldn't tell colleagues.

I would post on here.

Hmmm that's actually a tough question. Possibly dh but a lot of the issues I'm likely to be upset about are either joint problems eg money or something to do with kids so he'd know already or else it's him that's the problem so pointless.
My closest friend uses me for her problems but doesn't listen.
I'm also a very private person and find it hard to open up

My mum or dad
My siblings/siblings spouses
Friends
DP

My BF or my DH,my BF first because she's a women and unlike my DH she wouldn't try to offer solutions she'd just listen to me,sympathise and then spend the next 20 minutes slagging of whoever what ever had upset me and then the next 60 minutes plotting it's/they're doom.

Lots of people to phone, far flung life so when a few years ago I had an orbital migraine and couldn’t drive to collect dcs and had no one local to call I gave my head a wobble and made building a real life network a priority.
Still more likely to telephone for emotional support but I now could rock up on several doorsteps and vice versa.