I’ve moved more than 30 times in 31 years, not counting all the times we moved when I was an infant and toddler.
As a consequence, I do not have an close friends. While I have some family, and my significant other and my son… I do not have anyone to just be social with. No one to call in the middle of the night, no one to go on vacation with every summer, no one to come to my wake one day.
It makes me feel like I am a failure when I see the hundred or so people who came to my grandparents’ 50th Anniversary.. people they’ve known for 50 years, for 20 years… and I have no one like that.
