"You Need 50 People."

Kurt Vonnegut on loneliness, community, and why marriage can never be enough for anyone.

I don’t think I was prepared for how exhausting and lonely parenting can be in the modern world. Despite having active young kids and constantly taking them places, I still find myself longing for time to myself. Time to think, and time to talk to other adult humans about things beyond parenting. But the dishes keep spinning and the laundry keeps crashi…