My dad is almost 70 and has no close friends, and I’ve stopped trying to fix it, because I finally understood he doesn’t experience it as a problem — he built a whole life on not needing anyone, and to him the quiet isn’t loneliness, it’s just how a man is supposed to live
My father is almost seventy and he has no close friends. Not one. No mate he rings on a Sunday, no old colleague he meets for a beer, nobody who would notice, in the first day or two, if he went quiet. For years this frightened me. So I did what you do. I tried ... Read more