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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s likely that after years of being alone, living without a solid community you have adapted your outlook to prefer solitary activities and lifestyle but that doesn’t ever truly overcome the deep biological need for social relationships, hence your feelings of loneliness. It’s a crappy situation to find yourself in because it’s almost impossible to feel satisfied when trying to balance between two incompatible extremes such as this. I completely relate btw so I am not happy to report this. I feel like we are a broken society with broken lives because of it. [/quote]

In some ways I have community, but it's often "too much." I volunteer weekly at a place that sells things (I help with the running of it, not with selling things) and I don't want the person in charge of volunteers to hug me. Yes, I've known her over a decade and she's perfectly nice, but I just ... don't want to hug her or have her hug me (I like hugs just fine, just don't want to with her). Sometimes I buy things at this place and inevitably someone working there will say "What'd ya get?" and I don't want to answer them. I know they're trying to build rapport and be friendly, but ... I just don't want to.

I get enough social stimulation from food shopping, or, in the olden days, sitting in a book store for a few hours reading. Sometimes I dogsit and feel enough social interaction from the dog, and am annoyed at having to be nice and "neighborly" to the other people walking dogs. [/quote]

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