Home/Social & Belonging/Social exhaustion/ThoughtI stopped looking at the group chat after 8pm because I just can't do it anymore.social exhaustionShare this thoughtCopy linkShare on XDownload imageDoes this resonate with you?Share Your OwnBrowse MoreOthers have felt this tooI should've known when the group chat went silent that they were just moving to a different thread...friendship fakenessI saw the group chat again, 1 AM, all of them "brainstorming" — which really means bonding over pizza and inside jokes I'm never in on. …quiet quitting guilti just spent like four hours in a group meeting listening to people fight about fonts and who's gonna do the slides and now my brain feels like soup my phone is ringing it's my mother she's asking if… …social exhaustionAnd the truly fucked up part is that I don’t feel sad, not really, just this weird, hollow relief, like I finally gave myself permission to admit that something died years ago and I’ve just been… …aging friendship lossRelated ThemesComparison spiralsFeeling Invisible With AgeFriendship fakenessLoneliness in crowdsLosing Friends to Time