> I came to the realization a while back that I only have maybe…4 friends other than my wife. This is overwhelmingly true about everyone, having a single digit

> I came to the realization a while back that I only have maybe…4 friends other than my wife. This is overwhelmingly true about everyone, having a single digit count of close friends. People that pretend to have dozens of close friends, are liars, whether consciously or subconsciously (specifically they're maintaining a facade to draw social points from, narcissistically). It's not feasible to successfully maintain so many high level relationships, even if it's all a person does all day. A typical social butterfly might have a few dozen active social connections that they keep alive by occasionally touching base, which is very different from having that many good friends.