Some days, my conversations on here are my only ones! Lol. Since losing my folks and falling out with my brother and his family, I'm pretty much on my own now. I've never even kept in touch with many of my old work colleagues which I probably should have made more effort with as a few were quite nice. Thank goodness I have always been pretty happy with my own company
I thought I was the winner in the "failure to keep in touch stakes"
I have two brothers, one lives approximately 300 miles away, we exchange Emails, perhaps 3 times a year. My other brother lives ten minutes walk from where I live, we speak/see each other about once per year on average. There is no animosity, we get along perfectly fine, we just don't seem to have the ability to keep in touch.
I retired about 13 years ago, I have not seen or heard from any of my ex-colleagues since the day I left.
Oddly enough, one of my drinking pals is ace at "keeping in touch". He is older than me (80), and, last Christmas was a bit depressed, because, at one of the annual re-unions he attends, where there used to be 40+ people, there was only 3 (including himself), the rest having departed for good. My advice, just don't go, it is too depressing
