Ask Amy: Like Garbo, she just wants to be alone
Dear Amy: I’m a mid-50’s mother of adult children.
I have healthy relationships with my folks, siblings, children, and my loving partner.
All that said: I crave being alone.
I have never lived alone. I lived with my family, then in dorms, with roommates, with a spouse, then children. I divorced but had kids at home, developed a new loving relationship, merged households, and now the kids are grown and all doing well.
The world may be going to Hell in a handbasket, but I am grateful that my tiny corner of the world is happy and healthy.
I am a brand-new empty nester and that has thrilled me — because I get to be alone more.
I love my partner and family, but I want to be fully and completely alone in my own home for weeks on end. (I am not talking about downtime or a weekend away.)
My job is such that I could arrange to be alone for one to three months, but I feel like my family would be so hurt!
I share a home with my partner so they would need to leave – or I would. I could afford this option.
It has nothing to do with anyone but me. I just want to live in isolation for a while.
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