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Thanks for explaining, I am considering this. But I’m still very far from convinced. There are specific benefits to strong trusting long term intimate social relationships that I don’t see as replaceable and I see them as vital to positive well-being. I think one can get along okay without them but they’d be damaging their outcomes, measured by higher stress, lower positive emotional states, and higher risk of mental health disease. I think the latter, the risk of spiralling into unhealthy beliefs and behaviours without social fabric to co-regulate those things, that is particularly concerning and something I personally gave seen happen to loved ones and acquaintances, as have probably most people.

In any case, good luck out there & thanks

edit: I’m talking about close friends and family. I think acquaintances offer very little in comparison. I feel I could also live without them. Except once in a while they turn into a close friend, and I suppose I wouldn’t have close friends, or perhaps even my own family, without them.