I actually find that I prefer to vent on here than with my friends. I don't want to burden my friends with my problems and at this point, I'd kind of rather that my friends did the same thing, more or less.

For me, it's kind of like there are acute problems and chronic problems. In the past, I have made the mistake of complaining about 'chronic' problems, like a job I hated for years on end, and kind of driven people away. I've had people do it to me, too. Some things don't actually get better when we talk about them. Talking about a miserable job just makes me more miserable, for instance... and then it tends to bring down the person I'm talking to, and they may avoid me in the future because of that.

When you say that these people just want to have fun, are they trying to cheer you up or do they just not care? That would make a difference to me.