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Can you explain what you mean by this? It sounds like a contradiction, loneliness is bad but friendship is worse?

Bad friends can be worse than no friends, and a series of bad luck could make a person believe that the only friends are bad ones (alternatively unrealistic expectations could cause this too)

Bad relationships, including friendships, can cause one to adopt poor communication habits (e.g. guilting others or ghosting others), and also have a higher tolerance for negative behavior instead of communicating a boundary.

There is a bit more discussion on this in an old Hacker News thread from February 2020, where several people discuss the serious impact of unhealthy relationships in the quality of one's life: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22214066

In my experience, yes, though with (very rare) exceptions. I don't see it as a contradiction, though

I think the point of good friendships is that they aren't this way.

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