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  I think you just never have had a good group. This is not my experience in any of my close 3 groups.
context: One-on-one or couple-on-couple dinners are much better than group events for me. You can actually talk substance and learn what's going on with them, rather than engaging in useless small talk with a bunch of different people or watching an attention whore trying to get everyone to listen to them.