Kim, your post makes me realize that I may need to adequately define the qualities I am looking for in alone time for myself. Now that I think about it, it may have less to do with being alone than it has to do with being interrupted or *possibly* being interrupted. Like this evening, we ate dinner together, chatted a bit, and then went off to work on our separate projects... but it's not the same as working in the house alone, or walking in the woods alone, because I feel like I am on edge the whole time, just waiting to be interrupted.

Thank you, this has given me a new way to think about this.