When was the last time a friend visited you in your home?

[Carebearsonmybed]

No one other than family has set foot inside my home for over a year.

This isn't normal is it?

I'm autistic so have great difficulty with social relationships but this feels extreme.

I'm someone who'd love to have someone visit, I have invited people I think of as friends (I have a tendency to think someone's my friend when they don't see me that way).

I haven't visited anyone at the their home since last year. I don't get invites. I have 'friends' I've visited before but these friendships have been more distant recently. I also realise lots of people don't like people in their homes.

My house is very easy to reach by public transport so it's not that.

I don't even know the point in the post it's just I look at all these empty seats and think it's such a waste of a nice space to hang out in.

When I was younger I thought at my age I'd be hosting endless dinner parties! Last did that early 2023 but have since become estranged from that friend.

I'm not cut out for such a lonely life. 😢

I have friend staying here from NZ but she has gone away for few days. I probably have someone over for coffee or wine 2-3 times a month .
Have another friend coming over on Thursday.
Called over to see a friend this pm at her house for tea and catch up.
Just live your life how you feel comfortable .We are all different.

If you invite little Johnny over for a playdate, what about a message to mum like, "I will give them dinner at around 530. Would you like to come over around them for a cup of tea/glass of wine while they eat?" And see how it goes?

As for people.lying, its not that so much as people.often struggle to make it clear when they really mean something or just being polite. As a South African I havr also found this tricky so I feel your pain.

I only have NHS people in for my disabled DD. That’s it. Have no family left sadly, and only friend lives hundreds of miles away. It doesn’t help that we are very rural and I don’t go to church.
I’d love to have friends in (well, friends, period!) even though I have Aspergers’ and anxiety would be through the roof after all this time not doing so. I used to quite enjoy it 15-20 years ago.

Over four years here, and the only other people to set foot in my home in that time are my partner, and the Gas Safety Engineer.

My home is my private space, I don't want to share it with visitors. If I'm going to meet friends it will be in a cafe, or a pub or something.

I don't think it's that unusual to not really want people in your home.