direction

Sapphy glimpse at this illustration.

Each arrow represents a person. The big arrow means the overall direction. When everyone goes in their own direction, no one gets anywhere.
You, your family, and I for 1 year we were unable to go in 1 direction to accomplish something beneficial.

This is adding the Sisters. The colored arrows (after 4 main persons) are the additions. As 4 people together we are like unstable elements. You wish to bring a 5th and 6th element that would complicate things further?
You'd been unable to get along with your own best friends. The duration is from about January 2021 to May 2022; With the Sisters we wasted 1.5 years, because you unknowingly dissolved ties with them.
For Mr. P and I is not established a friendship and for a lifetime I've chosen to avoid a relationship. However recently, you want to bring in both Mr. P's friend and MP also? This is six elements. The result would be unintentional wasted time repeated again as with the Sisters.
Think of it this way. Anytime you add 1 person, we will waste 7 months of time.
To be efficient, let's look at only 4 people.

Here's an easy equation that will likely work.
If 4 people can get along for 2 weeks, then you have endured the most unstable period, and grander things can happen. I'm asking for only 2 weeks. At the very least, we need to synchronize for 1 week.

Everyone personally has a different way of doing things. People throw baseballs with their right hand. People throw baseballs with their left. Some people make fantastic clothes, some people make plain warm clothes.
If I am to make great guy friends, you have to let me do it my way. You should let me choose my own friends the way that's most comfortable to me. The next page, there's a sufficient answer to your question.

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-- April 6, 2024, 10:30pm EDT