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Psychology says the loneliness that arrives after 65 isn’t an inevitable feature of aging — it’s the accumulated result of every friendship that was allowed to thin, every phone call that was delayed, every invitation that wasn’t extended, compounded quietly over decades until the social life that once maintained itself without effort requires more effort than it has ever required and more energy than is currently available
I’m 66 and I finally understand that my father’s anger when I came home late wasn’t about rules — it was about the 45 minutes he spent at the window imagining every possible version of what might have happened, and by the time I walked through the door his nervous system had processed so many catastrophic simulations that the relief arrived as fury because his body didn’t have a calmer way to discharge the accumulation
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