When you make a new friend for the first time, ,go on a couple of solo dates with that friend before you make group plans.

When I was about 15, I met a guy named Kurt. He was super cool. We hung out, and I really liked him. <br>Then I introduced him to my friends. And since I was in high school, we didn’t do much more than hang out at my house and play games. I invited Kurt to come over, and he hung out with us once or twice. <br>A couple weeks after that, he invited me over his house, and I went. His house was a lot nicer than mine, and I was very surprised. I asked him about it, and he said he was really rich and he was jealous of my relationship with my friends. He said it was something he wish he had and that he wanted to hang out, so he acted friendly in the hope his went cool. <br><br>He never really liked me, he said I was a means to an end, and that now that he had my friendship with the friend group, he didn’t have to hang out with me. He wasn’t mad at me, but I caused him embarrassment by being a middleclass family when he was (in his words) “immensely wealthy.” <br><br>I stopped hanging out with him. <br>I took a solid L for not figuring it out earlier. <br><br>So if you make a new friend, try to have one on one hangouts for a little bit. If they can’t be bothered with you by yourself, I’d figure out why.