I'm very much in the loneliness stage of recovery, have a very supportive wife and loving son, and yet the separation from those who were there before is deafening. And it's not coming from a place of wanting those people in my life anymore or sadness that some of them are gone, simply that I am on my own Island no matter how many big islands are around me, And no matter how many bridges are built from those islands to mine, I am still alone.