As a kid, my parents seemed to have friends, but they didn’t invite them over ever. They spent all of their spare time at home and only occasionally went on social visits.

As an adult, whenever I talked with my parents, they talked about how often they went to social events and church events and interacted with their neighbors.

It wasn’t until they were elderly and I was actively taking care of them that the truth became obvious. Outside of family, my father had very few friends, and my mother had no friends.