Longest you've gone without conversation

[blackdot]

My coworkers always ask me why I come to work when I don't care about money.
I always tell them it's because work is my social life.
They never understand that answer.

 

[Okiedokes]

In a matter of about 8 years, not counting family members or online friends, I could probably count how many times I had a conversation with an irl friend on both hands and maybe still have a couple fingers left.

 

[lusker]

I couldn't say. All through primary school, for sure, but in high school I made some friends, lost them all when they went to university and I couldn't afford to, so had to get a job. By the time I'd saved enough money to get a degree, they'd all graduated. Four years at uni alone, not a single friendly conversation, then a succession of jobs with people I hated before the army showed me what I was lacking and what I was good at. When that chapter ended and my civilian life resumed, I began my current job and have made a number of close acquaintances over the last fifteen years. But nobody I'd call a friend. Nobody I could count on. In my former office I often went days where the only words I spoke were variations on 'Hello, how are you?', in the strictest rhetorical sense. I am Travis Bickle every ******* day.

 

[Cucuboth]

If we can't count family (although I don't really have conversations with them either), nor short one-sided exchanges, like with a shop assistant or cashier, and no professional conversations, like with a doctor or a therapist .... then the last social conversation I had was 17 years ago, in 1996.

Never had any genuine friends, so, haven't had anyone to consider as a 'best friend' either.

 

[jetsuo]

Fortunetly I have one good friend who i can share things with sometimes. My friend is engaged but thankfully his fiancee isnt at all posessive and enjoys it when i come round. Im quite thankful for that otherwise all id have is superficial friends.

 

[jzinsky]

Sixteen years.

I have trouble believing that, Rosebolt. Social conversation with strangers or acquaintances count in this.

Define "social conversation"

If you mean "I say words, then you say words relating to what I said" then a few hours ago

If you mean "A conversation with someone about something that has nothing to do with what we have to do now" well jeez... weeks, months, years? Did I ever? Heck there's been times I've stopped breathing through isolated boredom

 

[ardour]

Sixteen years.

I have trouble believing that, Rosebolt. Social conversation with strangers or acquaintances count in this.

Define "social conversation"

If you mean "I say words, then you say words relating to what I said" then a few hours ago

If you mean "A conversation with someone about something that has nothing to do with what we have to do now" well jeez... weeks, months, years? Did I ever? Heck there's been times I've stopped breathing through isolated boredom

Conversation where you talk about your lives and/or get to share opinions. It doesn't have to be with a close friend. Just any reasonably lengthy conversation that goes beyond formalities and exchanges for the sake of politeness. Where you get to be yourself, and the other person is interested in hearing it.

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If we can't count family (although I don't really have conversations with them either), nor short one-sided exchanges, like with a shop assistant or cashier, and no professional conversations, like with a doctor or a therapist .... then the last social conversation I had was 17 years ago, in 1996.

Never had any genuine friends, so, haven't had anyone to consider as a 'best friend' either.

That's terrible. I'm sorry...

Do you live in the Outback??

 

[WallflowerGirl83]

It depends to be honest, one year I went weeks without talking much to anyone cause I was so lost in my head at the time and didn't want to drag anyone down. Always lost in my head most of the time but I do talk to people now. Still quiet though, but if I'm with my very good friend or someone I really care about I'm really silly.

 

[ladyforsaken]

2 years - then best friend, still best friends.

 

[Lowlander]

I don't really keep track.i but at the moment i don't talk much at all. I have one female best friend, that's about it. I don't talk much with my classmates, i am not like them. I am a more serious type of guy and i often don't know what to say. I am not shy, i just need people who are more like me.

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I don't really keep track.i but at the moment i don't talk much at all. I have one female best friend, that's about it. I don't talk much with my classmates, i am not like them. I am a more serious type of guy and i often don't know what to say. I am not shy, i just need people who are more like me.

 

[Badjedidude]

Maybe a day or two.

 

[Skid Row 89]

Probably around a day or two at most without any real conversation with friends or family.