Soon enough, both places lacked community, connection, anything more than superficial interaction. No wonder loneliness showed
I just don’t buy this entirely. Unless your marriage is terrible, you have no siblings/parents/cousins around AND your kids are assholes, there’s no reason people *with spouses/life partners/ family/kids* should be so lonely. That’s part of the effing point. It’s literally a reason aside from sexual enjoyment and monetary benefit why people bother partnering up at all; because sure, most people do want someone around who will listen to them gush on and on about Secrets of Dumbledore, even if they don’t really get it. Most people do want someone who will make pizza with them and laugh about inside jokes with them and who will make soup when they have a cold. I just don’t understand why a married lady with four kids is making such a hard sell on the idea that it has to be *other* people. You have to collect up the dog groomer, the baseball coach and the lady who live on the corner as well. It’s nutty.
