You still sound very entrenched in your ingrained pattern of behavior (discarding people you knew before and adopting a new group of people you are cultivating who currently think highly of you). If they think highly of you, what do you feel about them? It's a 2-way street.

In other words it still sounds like you are having superficial relationships that are designed to give you something you need and they aren't really reciprocal. Exploring why that is might be useful or perhaps you may be one of the people who just can't make much progress. That's a valid question to ask your therapist - how much progress does the therapist think you've made and how long will it take if you work very hard to get to the goal you want to reach?