How do you feel about introducing different friends from different parts in your life, to each other?

[Anonymous]

Would you introduce any of your friends who have never met, to each other?

Or have you ever been uncomfortable with a situation, in which two of your friends are getting close after you introduced them?

[Jayson101]

I don't mind at all. But I notice some people have a problem with it and I don't know why. They compartmentalize their friends and get panicky when the two groups interact. I think it's a marker of a childish and superficial personality. I don't know why they are awkward about it but it just seems superficial.

That said I have a father who I cannot introduce a lot of people to because he likes to belittle me and demean me and has embarrassed me tremendously in the past so I try to avoid social situations with him.

[winterfox10]

I don’t really like doing that. I have different relationships with different people, and I tailor my interactions from person to person. Allowing someone to see another side of me could jeopardize the relationship I have built with them.

[bittersweet_ghost]

I try to get my friends in different parts together because why not, I hate meeting each one separately and it's cool they can be friends too, I do worry if they clash or gets too awkward or single me out but I'm trying to break down cliches lol. Even in high school, I was a floater, meaning I have friends in different cliques or didn't belong to a specific group lol. I also wanna meet my friends' friends too

[ThatonehO]

I don't necessarily have a problem with it, but I'm not actively trying to introduce my friends from different areas of my life either.

I think sometimes it's beneficial to have that separation too, in that you get to experience that friendship without the influence of your other friendships (and subsequently their relationships to each other as well) which is nice.

[Anonymous]

I've done that plenty of times. For the most part they all are easy-going and sociable so it's not hard. Only issue I have is that since I'm the common thread they always resort back to talking about me 😅

[Asker]

Oh yeah. That part can actually be really weird, your friends discussing you. I can relate.

[Opinion Owner]

Right, especially if they start swapping some of your embarrassing stories 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Asker]

Or something you wished one friend hopefully wouldn't share with the other friend. 😂 You're like 🤞🤞

[RuthAnn1781]

I don't think I'd do that unless I thought they might like each other. I just don't like the idea of people who know me in different ways getting together, it would complicate things

[Jayson101]

But when you get older you can't continue to 'know people in different ways' you have to interact with people directly and be self actualized. There are six million people in the world and they just don't care enough to be worth pandering to

[Jayson101]

*six billion

[RuthAnn1781]

@Jayson101 That's very true, yeah

[pinkzoesbb]

This would be a very bad idea. My old good friends would not understand why I’m friends with the new ones.

[Ellaki]

It'd be weird at first but hopefully it'll get better as time goes by

[Anonymous]

I have done that before and it was either really awkward or just ok but that's about it. It's even worse when I introduce my boyfriend to friends

[Anonymous]

I never had a problem with that, we usually have the same interests so everyone pretty much gets a long well

[Dr_Latex_McPeggin]

I feel fine and have no hiccups...

[Hyperchick096]

I would if I had friends 😂

[cupidkisses]

Good