I kinda do this. I’ve found that I drift away from everyone. I don’t respond in real time. I don’t want to interrupt anyone for idle conversation.

Not sure I’d really recommend, but I can’t seem to help drifting away from people. Only people in my life are my wife, kids, and people my wife keeps in my life, which includes my own folks.

It’s lonely when I stop to think about it. Which mostly I don’t, but when I do… it sucks. And I think I’m accidentally raising my kids to be the same way.