I (44f) have always struggled with maintaining friendships. It always seems to me that people that I think I have strong friendships with stop wanting to be my friend when I am no longer useful to them in some way. This may be a result of insecurity from being raised by a nmom and struggling to trust people, but I don't know. I have asked my therapist about how to be or think more normal and she assures me that I am normal but I always feel like I'm trying to figure out how other people think or process information because it seems different from me.
I have children and I'm responsible for teaching them social skills and it breaks my heart because I'm terrible at it so I isolate and then my kids seem to follow suit. I don't want them to be anything like me. I don't want them to struggle. How do I understand people better and how do I help my children not have the struggles I do? Thank you for any guidance especially 8f there are other parents here struggling with something similar.