Relationships make my life better

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I grew up in an abusive household with poor social abilities and almost no friends. Gradually I have become better at making friends but often feel disconnected or disinterested in them even if they feel really interested in our friendship.

However if I am in love and in a nice relationship, which happened once 5 years ago and is happening again now, I feel almost like a different person.

When I have this kind of social support, my life feels stable. I feel like I can exhale. My obsessions are less intrusive. I end up fostering friendship more and I have less anxiety. I'm kinder to people in general and feel more responsible with life's details as well. When I don't have a relationship I become obsessed with topics at the expense of my physical health (with no normal person to limit obsessions by simply being a presence in my life and influencing daily schedules, this happens quickly), I feel annoyed by interaction, anxious, and just dislodged in general.

Isn't it a bit dangerous to have this kind of positive reaction from a relationship? What if I don't have a relationship one day....will I just become a semi-miserable, though functional, person again? Or what?

Anyone relate?

I've gone through a similar situation in life.

My friendship is almost 5 years old and it has had a similar effect on me.
I have also had a really big positive impact on him as well (he is NT, though he seems to have all the other bad traits that I the aspie am supposed to have!).

There is a chance, you will revert back to some degree, if you lose that person (hopefully you have other people by then that can minimize the blow)

This is the risk that comes with relationships that everyone in the world goes through.
It's not AS specific.


The risk is normally worth it and if that person has a positive impact on you to that degree, then they are well worth it.

Even though mine is long distance and kinda tenuous for now I definitely know what you mean. No matter how crazy my existence gets there's still someone incredible I can remain happy for and be understood by. We've been quite reliably forgiving to one another and our cars match.

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Most of us, despite being mostly anti-social, still find joy if being in social situations works out to our benefit. I definitely feel great if I'm in good company. It just doesn't happen much more often than it actually does.

When everything goes well in a relationship (not talking about romantic) my life definitely gets better and i think this is true to almost everyone.
The problem (which is one of the reasons that a lot of people decide to live alone) is how hard it is to find and keep a healthy relationship.

While not romantic relationships, I agree - my relationships with a few of my best & closest friends definitely make my life better. Even if I don't have the opportunity to go visit one or more of them for a while, just thinking about them is enough to boost my mood & motivation to do things - i.e. hard work, or workout/run/exercise or work on some other goal. When the going gets tough I just put myself in the mindset that I'd do whatever it is I have to for _____ person in my life, and it motivates me to get things done. I quite like that I can do this w/o having to have a romantic relationship as it's not the same sort of codependency some people end up developing on a romantic partner.

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I've been in my first true relationship for about 4 or 5 months now, and I feel like a different person too. My obsessions are less intrusive, I feel less emotional, and it's even opening doors to new opportunities, like meeting new people (his family and friends), and sharing experiences by going out and visiting places together, and it's giving me something useful to think about rather than worrying about the silly things I used to worry or obsess about. He's even given me more confidence in doing things I was always afraid to do on my own, like booking a vacation online, finding my way around the large, busy town where he lives, and other experiences like that. It is a very good thing. He's NT, but is quite shy and enjoys most things I enjoy, except he likes rock bands and action movies and I don't. I prefer country music and movies that don't involve shooting, gangsters, cars in a big city at night, stuff like that. But a man and a woman are bound to have their differences like that, but there are plenty of other things that we both enjoy too.

Here's why; the only things you ever really feel good about:

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