I live in a rural area, about four miles from my nearest neighbor. My husband works away on a two-weeks-on, two-weeks-off rotation, which is fairly common where I live. The community is widely scattered, you need a car to get almost anywhere, and there isn’t a great deal of interaction between neighbors. In fact, I suspect many people don’t even know who lives closest to them.
But I want to make something clear: I’m not generally a lonely person.
