Thank you for sharing that. Your dessert analogy perfectly captures my personal experiences. I've been a loner most of my life. I recognize the bad experience I had in my childhood and the coping strategies I developed during my teenage years. I have a tendency to isolate myself. Sometimes I felt it was too late to go back to connect with people I've stopped talking to, but that was not at all the case. People are very forgiving and they were happy to have me back.