Hello lattelover: I'm sorry I'm not going to be able to offer anything of any consequence regarding your concern. (Hopefully there will be other PC members who will have ideas they can share.) However I noticed this is your first post here on PC & you had yet to be greeted. So...welcome to Psych Central.

One additional forum, here on PC, that may be of interest to you would be the Relationships & Communication forum. Here's a link:

https://psychcentralforums.com/relat...communication/

Here are links to 5 articles, from Psych Central's archives, on the subject of making & keeping friends:

Building and Keeping a Circle of Friends

8 Tips for Making Friends

10 Ways to Make Friends

10 More Ways to Make Friends

https://psychcentral.com/lib/turning...-into-friends/

I hope you find PC to be of benefit.