[rationalist]

I'm glad the one person stayed your friend. I would suggest keeping the friendship the same as how it was before you told her.

I have hobbies that I don't try to impose on my friends, and if I did, they wouldn't want to be my friends anymore because they're not interested in all of the same things I am.

I don't know about you, but if I was in your shoes, I would be laughing after-the-fact about those other three. They just needed some kind of an excuse, and it was a silly one. I would be like: lol, okay, moving on.

Thanks for the update, and best of luck going forward!