Can I lose my attachment to wanting friends?

[Shankapotomus]

16. If you can't move away

you can lose your attachment to anything. But if you can move, why would you want to endure that if you didn't have to? Maybe you should lose your attachment to staying if those around you are troubling you too much.

However, even after moving I would still adjust my expectations of others, as well. There is no guarantee friendships will develop in even the most open and kindest communities. Sometimes if we scale back our goals with others from attaining full fledged friendship to just first being able to occasionally engage in friendly interaction with strangers and acquaintances, our desires for contact becomes more manageable.

Your post reminds me of an old short story about a Buddhist poet I was reading a few days ago called "An Account of My Hut" or "The Ten Foot Square Hut".

Perhaps a link to the text may be helpful:

http://www.humanistictexts.org/kamo.htm

There are also many videos on Youtube by various Buddhist practitioners that address both the internal and external struggle: