(This is a bit long winded sorry!)

Ive been with my fiancé for 8 years, we met in school through the same group of friends.

As the years have gone on we’ve always had the same group of friends and hung out with them, but within the past 2 years this group of friends have been awful to my fiancé, only using him as a ‘last resort’ when no one else could come out for a drink, then blaming him for all the drama that was going on in their lives, or just bluntly telling him “I’ve not been replying to your text because I just couldn’t be bothered!” These friends have also ignored my fiancé’s suggestions of doing something else but being at a pub.

My fiancé suffers badly with anxiety and depression, so struggles to make new friends (hence having the same group of friends for a long time) but despite this he got fed up of being treated like crap and being second best, so he started cutting the ‘friends’ out gradually.

At first he was okay about it, but when it came to cutting ties with the last friend (the one he’s known the longest) he found this very difficult.

We were talking last night, because a friend of mine I met on the school run text me asking if my fiancé fancied playing snooker with her husband. (I thought it was a good idea because my fiancé has said himself that he found it difficult to find people with the same interests as him)

But all my fiancé did was thank her for the idea, but he kept telling me that he was okay on his own, that he didn’t need new friends, just myself and our son - which don’t get me wrong I’m flattered that he said that’s but it worries me that because he’s had an awful experience with him old friends that he’s cutting himself off from finding some genuine friends.

I understand that my fiancé finds it difficult to make new friends because of his anxiety but I just really want to help him.