Shifting Focus: Maintaining Relationships

For the last year, I have been trying to initiate contact and conversing with others, and I have been fairly successful at it.  The problem is that once contact was established, I would have a hard time maintaining relations.  I feel that it is time to refocus on my efforts on the next objective, which is maintaining those relationships.  I should have realized this earlier since I have watched relationship after relationship get decimated because of my stupidity, awkwardness or paranoia.  I watched as my friendship with Bill slowly disintegrated over time, watched as my friendship with Eric of building 1 take a dive bomb because I blankly stared at him, and watched just a week ago, as I inadvertently destroyed relations with Stephanie of OVT.  I have few relations left with people on campus, I hope can maintain them, maybe even foster them to grow.  I hope I can succeed.  This is going to be hard, very hard.