Here is some sage advice: don&#x27;t worry about it.<p>A good leader doesn&#x27;t have to be best friends with the workers.  Do your best work for your team, and hopefully they will respect you.<p>Make friends outside of work.  Are you married?  Somehow it didn&#x27;t sound like it?  Are your workers married?  I used to be the most gung ho person in my office, and didn&#x27;t relate well with my married coworker that had children.  Now I am married and I see how priorities change.<p>Bottom line, chin up. You are obviously good at what you do, so just keep crushing it.  And don&#x27;t believe everything you read on HN