Thanks for the welcome notes. :-)

Woolly Bugger, your suggestions are spot on. He enjoys cooking and does volunteer on farms sometimes. Unfortunately, he doesn't stay with any activity long enough to form meaningful social relationships any more. He used to enjoy sports but after a couple of surgeries, that option is negligible.

TRNRMOM, thanks for sharing your thoughts. Your suggestion that that we are content and that I'm projecting that he's not comfortable is not valid. I would not have joined a bipolar forum after 20 years if there were only imagined issues here...

I couldn't see a solution when I started the thread. It looked like our small social circle is going to dwindle progressively. However, this morning, hubby and I had a fruitful discussion and had some ideas that we'll try out. One of them is to change the nature of social interactions that we have with the extended family in town (big thing in India) to make them more manageable, enjoyable, and meaningful.

I hope to see more responses on this thread.