@anika987, I am posting my musings here... not sure how many of these you will actually identify with! We may or may not need friends but we definitely need companions... at least occasionally! This is a universal truth and we know it. The bigger truth of our universe is that we are introverts! We are at the age and at that stage in life when matching thoughts with people and finding people around who we may agree with more often than how much we disagree with, is rare. To add to it all, we may feel agoraphobia/ claustrophobia/ we may be omnivert/ ambivert, etc etc. Finally perimenopause is the lurking giant that casts its dark shadow on anything and everything around us and ladies in our age bracket!