Feel lonely/alone even though I have friends

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I often get this overwhelming sense if loneliness, that if I didn't contact people they wouldn't ask me to do anything/check in with me etc. I have three friends I would consider close, 2 I see fairly regularly and one lives away but we speak every few months and can talk about literally anything. I have work friends etc. I just can't shake the feeling, if I'm I'll or hormonal or anything it kind of preoccupies me and is just repetative. I'm not sure where it comes from or whether my thoughts that's other people don't think about me are true or not but it's having quite an impact. I have a 2year old so I don't know whether this has an impact two as having kids does change things.
Does anyone else think like this?

I think these days, and after you get to a certain age, life just gets very busy. I have a sense almost constantly that I'm not giving people the attention they deserve. It's often my friends contacting me first, which makes me feel like a crap friend. It's often me suggesting me and my friends get together, but that's ok. I don't think it's that people don't care, people are just sometimes uncontrollably busy.

Is there anything else going on that's making you feel down and it's projecting onto this specifically?

Do you have a partner OP?

I feel like that, usually when I'm tired or anxious. I've noticed that if there is something g else to be anxious about, I don't really think about it, but I kind of ruminate when I'm tired or over busy. I have GAD and it's part of that so trying to manage with the usual - mindfulness, exercise, not drinking too much etc.

Tbh I think this is part of the normal human condition and everyone feels like this sometimes.
Don’t think the relentless bad news and awful weather helps.
Just remember this too will pass

I'm terrified of self-isolation because of the loneliness aspect.