I wanted accurate company more than actual company

Dear Delyara, That is the distinction I keep returning to. Not more presence. More accuracy. Company that senses without forcing explanation. Company that can tell when I need less and when I need gentler. Company that doesn’t mistake my silence, slowness, or thinner tone for the wrong thing. I think loneliness now is often not about being alone. It is about being inaccurately accompanied. That kind of loneliness is hard to explain. But it is very real in me.