It’s not just you. I don’t have good luck with friendships either. Recently I met someone I thought I had some common ground with and we went to lunch. It turned out she was mostly interested in asking me a bunch of questions related to my specialty in health care. Then she seemed to want to debate the information I shared with her. Then she went into very personal detail about her marital problems. I felt uncomfortable and I don’t want to talk to her again. She gave me a bad vibe. Another person recently wanted money due to problems her adult son has brought on himself. She was very needy and always having problems she wanted me to help with and I refused to do it... so the friendship did not last.... The list just goes on. I see people form friendships all the time and it hasn’t worked out for me. I feel sad about it. Maybe I bail at the first little sign of trouble... I don’t know. I have been taken advantage of too much and I can feel it coming a mile away now.