Older Redditors, what are some "early warning signs" of trouble that younger folks may not know about? [serious]

Neither my boyfriend or I have any friends. I kind of don't even know where to start because we're both extremely introverted people. I haven't hung out with anyone but him in over a year. We don't live together, so I spend every weekend with him and I'm fairly busy with work + (sometimes) hobbies during the week and he's extremely busy with school + work.

He hasn't had any friends since he graduated from high school and quit skating. He talks (text/email) to two guys he's been friends with for a couple years that he met off of a skate forum but one lives on the other side of California and the other is all the way in Dubai.

I had a couple friends that I was very close to move out of state and I had to break off a friendship with one of my best friends a couple years ago. Since then I have pretty much been a loner. There are three friends that I occasionally talk to via Instagram from school but we went our separate ways after graduation and haven't hung out in over a year.

I enjoy sewing, knitting, painting, cooking, and more recently I have been teaching myself music production. Unfortunately there are no groups in my area for any of those. The closest related groups I have found are for quilting and painting classes. I have zero interest in either and I'm pretty sure that everyone there is old enough to be my parent.

Lately, my boyfriend hasn't really had any hobbies but tumblr. He's on there a lot and has a lot of followers but most of them are teenage girls and it trips me out just a little. I never totally got tumblr but it's something he enjoys. He is still very interested in anything to do with skating and watches skate videos all the time but he can no longer skate due to an injury. He was collecting decks in the past but can no longer afford it. Lately he's been more interested in expanding his music collection, especially vinyls.

Although we look completely normal and I really wouldn't consider ourselves to be "nerds/geeks/whatever", we are both extremely awkward. I'm more talkative than he is but it takes me an extremely long time to open up to people and I have troubles relating to the vast majority of anyone I meet, including people with common interests. My boyfriend is very quiet and I've had people bring it up to me. I've only ever heard him talk to other people about geography. We both want to travel overseas after he finishes school. He also doesn't smoke weed because it stays in system longer than many other drugs, and he will need to take drug tests once he starts his internship. For some reason, this has been an issue with my family and the friends I've introduced him to.

In spite of his neuroticism, I feel like we are soul mates and I love spending time with him but sometimes I feel like there is some resentment from both ends and it scares me. Despite U.S. both being introverts and having similar interests/tastes, we are an archetypal "odd couple".

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