Feeling like you can't connect with anyone

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I'm 20 years old and I have no friends, I mean... I have these called friends that we hang out at weekends, but it's only that. I'm dating for 5 years... but the truth is I don't feel connected with anyone. I'm always feelings this emptiness here. Like it's all programmed, the talks, the life. The truth is I have this love/hate relationship with loliness. I feel like I'm looking for friends, being connected, but at the same time I don't want to spend long hours with them around, or having the appointment to be avaible all day to answer messages at social medias that I dislike...
Even I'm dating for 5 years I can't imagine living with someone else besides my dog. I feel horrible for thinking this way. I've been doing therapy for a month, but is so hard to tells things face to face. Sometimes I think I like doing "friends" online, talking about my problems, because it's so superficial, and don't have to act normal, to think about if I'm looking the right time to their eyes...
I wanted to get this off my chest

I relate to this

Like what is that thing that's missing ...

what does it actually mean to "relate" to someone anyway?

It's feels normal to me now, but did not when I was your age. It does get easier.

I think I can relate too. Sometimes I'll want to have relationships with people, but then I'll think about how exhausting it would be to have more friends than I already do (which is not many). It's just too much effort for something that doesn't really fill a void and often feels superficial.

Struggling with this too. I have always felt alone and isolated. Even though I love people deeply, I don't understand them and they don't understand me. Not even people I have known my whole life understand me. It is frustrating. I feel trapped in a world that doesn't understand me and never will. And have limited ability to understand them too.

I struggled at school to make friends. At uni I had learnt enough do's and don'ts to make friends but struggled to keep them.

Now, I feel very alone and would like to try to make more friends but as I am having success I am also afraid. Things I say and do frustrate them and things they say and do make me uncomfortable and upset.

I wish I could cope with people and they could cope with me.

It is like the whole of society has a manual that I am not allowed to see.

I think it's rare for people to genuinely connect with each other as individuals. Other people connect on the basis of things like group identity, and I don't enjoy that.

I've been with my partner for almost 3 years, and I love him very much, but I don't feel connected with him. I have friends and even a long time best friend but I ultimately feel alone..which I am comfortable with because it's all I know, but I still keep wondering if something will eventually click. I do hope it gets easier for those like us.

I don't connect with people really. I'm ok generally in the day to day running of things. I can get by socially now and far far better than I would have done 10 years ago but ultimately I'm glad to be by myself.

I always find it hard to understand how women can find a husband and settle down. I've had plenty of boyfriends and I am in a long distance relationship at the moment but I can't even think about how that might go if we was in closer proximity of one another.

I'd be terrified that the closer we got geographically, the further apart we might become interpersonally (if that's the right word).

When I was younger the no connection thing used to bother me so much and it did used to cause me a lot of distress but these days I very rarely think about it. Well not to any great extent anyway.

I'm 42 and I still find it very hard to make friends and now my manager is telling me to network. I just go of by myself at lunch and he knows that. So now I need to make these pseudo-friends at work, I have no idea how I'm going to manage that

I just keep looking for someone I can relate to, because I really am lonely, and I don't like having pets because, if they're my responsibility, I worry about them constantly, so much I can't even sleep. And besides, they don't have anything interesting to say, and they can't hold you.

I figure I'll eventually find someone who mostly does their own thing, happily, and we can occasionally do things together, especially cuddle every night. Oh, how I love cuddles...

Anyways, I face pretty tremendous odds, but I don't give up, because there's no point in giving up on something you truly need. I just keep trying new things, and keep finding new places to look, and keep learning from my mistakes, which are many.

Never give up.