I have no friends outside of work acquaintances, and am mostly estranged from my family (I am in contact with an aunt and a cousin). I met with an old friend once about a year ago, but other than that, haven't been out socially with anyone other than my boyfriend for 5 years.

So my boyfriend and I were on our way to the grocery store and I saw an advertisement for truck driving training. I casually mentioned that I think it would be interesting but I would get way too lonely doing something like that. His response was along the lines of "I find that hard to believe, you don't seem like a lonely person."

I've felt fairly invisible for most of my life, but I just felt so ...empty? I'm not even sure how to describe the feeling. Almost defeated, irrelevant...

I didn't really respond and changed the subject instead because I just didn't know what to say.