Anyone who are in a relationship but have few or no friends?

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How is it? What's your reason? What are your thoughts? (you don't need to answer all of them). I am not in a relationship and I have few friends, but some people have shown interest.

When you're in a relationship, you end up spending a lot of time with your SO. But you can choose whether or not you neglect your friends in order to do so.

In a relationship, VERY few friends here. It's not easy. Normal people thrive on interdependent relationships whereas I'm more comfortable as a loner. To get anything meaningful in life, you really have to depend on each other, so that makes my life difficult.

Being a loner also makes relationships difficult because it's so easy to isolate your SO. She doesn't like that one bit, so it's a big effort for me to turn off that part of myself and accept she wants to be with friends. I've forced myself to be more social so we can do more together and make sure she's happy. The thing that hurt me the most was finding out some of her friends were making fun of me and she said/did nothing about it, and maybe even went along with or contributed to it. I realized two things: We (she) had to stop associating with people with negative attitudes, judgmental and too narrow-minded to try to understand me; I had to work harder at putting myself out there, taking the initiative, and giving other people an honest chance. We are very happy together. But our differences in ability to socialize have made things difficult in the past.

I'm in a relationship and have a very, very small circle of friends. In my case, though, my relationship blossomed out of a pre-existing friendship, so it's really had no significant change or impact on my social life. It still feels like I have the same circle of friends I did before except I'm particularly close to one of them.

I'm in a relationship & only have one friend that I only see 1ce a year cuz I moved across the country to be with my girlfriend. I never had many friends & that never really bothered me. I just wanted one person I could be my true self around & my girlfriend is that one. I love being close & affectionate with her. She doesn't really have friends either but she does spend time with her family regularly.

How is it? What's your reason? What are your thoughts? (you don't need to answer all of them). I am not in a relationship and I have few friends, but some people have shown interest.

I am married and have two people I talk to now and then (maybe once a month or every other month). I'm not a people person, so I like not having friends all up in my face. Friends who want to be around all the time stress me out, even when I find them fascinating/interesting. Too much people is too much people. My spouse and friends are busy people so they are more than fine with me not engaging them frequently. Busy people are the best for relationships, I think. I do find my spouse to be an amazing person. I can say the same thing about the two people I sometimes talk to. They really are cool cats and all that jazz.

I'm married, but I feel like I have no friends, only acquaintances. And other family members. And all of them think I'm weird--NTHubby, co-workers, others who go to my same church, all my kin--they all think of me as weird. And no one wants to be friends with the weirdo.

Friendships are not based on numbers. its about quality of friends. But having friends is good, though you still can have a social life by taking your partner out to Meetup and related community event where you both socialise with like minded people. No problem having few friends but its healthy to have a social life.

I'm married with no friends and am happy to stay that way. I get all the people time I need from work projects or (since a couple of months ago) posting here. My wife has her own group of friends and goes out with them regularly. I stay at home with my cat and enjoy the peace and quiet. When I was younger I found it hard to make friends. I did have a few for a while, and had a go at having a social life for a few years, but it wasn't easy. Once I met my wife I basically decided to quit while I was ahead.