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Psychology says people who crave more alone time as they get older aren’t becoming antisocial or cold — they’re often the ones who spent decades absorbing everyone else’s noise before finally learning to hear their own

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Psychology says people who crave more alone time as they get older aren’t becoming antisocial or cold — they’re often the ones who spent decades absorbing everyone else’s noise before finally learning to hear their own
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Somewhere in the mid-forties, a friend starts declining things. Not rudely. They just stop turning up to the big loud dinners, and on the rare occasion they do, they are in a taxi home before dessert lands.
The group chat draws its conclusions. Gone a bit cold. Bit of a hermit these days. Probably something to do with the divorce.
The group chat is likely wrong, and the psychology on this is fairly settled.
The shrinking guest list is deliberate
Stanford’s Laura Carstensen spent decades on

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