I am someone who used to struggle social a lot but over time and during recent years I’ve became someone who finds socializing fairly easy and fun. I am great at making new friends or talking to new people. What I’ve struggled is keeping my friends for a long time or being respected by them. In my current case, my so called friends from college have damn near kicked me out of the group. They’re extremely mean to me and don’t respect me. We’re an all male friend group. This isn’t the first time this has happened. When I first meet them or any people I have a great time but over time they lose respect for me or something and I’m not able to develop close friendships in friend groups. I’m not sure what it is but I do observe this is a repeated thing for me and I want to fix it. Am I someone who hasn’t taken care of my reputation, am I too emotional? Do I not know how to be close to people? How do I maintain my power and respect in friend circles as such?