I feel like I live a very abnormal life. I'm married; don't have children. I'm an only child and my parents are dead. My husband's parents are also dead and he doesn't have much contact with his brother. I have NO friends. I work from home and I go days without talking to anyone but my husband.
I volunteer for a suicide prevention hotline and sometimes I will go days without talking to anyone but my husband until I go to the hotline and talk to suicidal people. I'm in a book club and sometimes I go to hotline events and socialize with other hotline workers.
I feel like I'm the only person in the world who is this cut off from people. I feel like everyone else has fullfilling family and social lives. I get really down on myself and wonder if God is punishing me or something. I'm like Charlie Brown with a rainy cloud following me wherever I go.
I've done everything my therapist has suggested in an effort to make friends, but still...nothing. People like me and think I'm nice, but no one ever wants to do anything with me socially.
Anyone else having this experience?
I volunteer for a suicide prevention hotline and sometimes I will go days without talking to anyone but my husband until I go to the hotline and talk to suicidal people. I'm in a book club and sometimes I go to hotline events and socialize with other hotline workers.
I feel like I'm the only person in the world who is this cut off from people. I feel like everyone else has fullfilling family and social lives. I get really down on myself and wonder if God is punishing me or something. I'm like Charlie Brown with a rainy cloud following me wherever I go.
I've done everything my therapist has suggested in an effort to make friends, but still...nothing. People like me and think I'm nice, but no one ever wants to do anything with me socially.
Anyone else having this experience?