I have been shocked at the number of friends that said they would help me with day-to-day food shopping etc who then simply don't show up. Some have done it once and said they were going to do it every week... Nada. And yes I think I could manage the food shopping and the cooking if I had someone to just show up and talk to me once in a while. I've been alone to one degree or another all of my life but I've never been lonely until recently.