I've had the same experience twice. Once in the past, I had developed a circle of friends who were the mothers of the friends of my small children. These women basically got together to drink, trash their husbands and gossip about everyone else. The negativity in this group was palpable and it really affected my outlook and my attitude. I was able to distance myself from them and not disrupt the friendships my children had formed. When I did so, what a relief!
More recently, having begun a spiritual journey and my quest for personal development, I've really become somewhat of a loner. I'm just not interested in normal topics of conversation anymore, like wallpaper or the latest movie. I feel like I'm wasting my time and it's time I could put to good use. My inspiration and my affirmation comes from inside myself now. From the tone of the other posts in this thread, I think it's a fairly common phenomenon.
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