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MzJelloFluff said:

i am alone really.. i dont have anyone that i am really close to. No one knows enough of me to know me enough. T is it. and yeah, he needs to repeat it, yeah i'm afraid of the unknowns.

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Sorry, this comment hit home too. I feel like this a lot. Are there any little things you are willing to do to improve this situation? I'm not talking about walking up to a complete stranger and laying out your life history. I'm talking about trying to connect in small ways with other people. Like you are doing here in cyberspace.

I'm trying to force myself to re-engage with people in little ways like:
1. Starting a conversation with another parent I don't know at my son's basketball practice.
2. Actually going to some of the events at my work- taking a leap and asking if the empty seat a new table is taken and if not sitting down and introducing myself. Most of the time that I've done this the table welcomes a new face and I make some new casual connections. If the people are boring or not receptive there is no loss, next event sit somewhere else.
3. I've thought about going to church one day--haven't done it yet-- but my childhood experience suggests that if I sit near some elderly women she'll start talking to me :-)

Although these encounters are not the type of deep connections we need, you never know where they might lead. One of my closest friend right now I met when I volunteer to coach a U7 soccer team. (I never played soccer in my life, I just basically ran around and played with 10 kids instead of just my two.) I spoke with her briefly at practices, invited all the kids over to my home for a team party, she came and stayed with her son, and bam we connected and a friendship developed.

Just some ideas.