I have a good friend, one of my closest friends, known him for the longest time who is kind of in the long term doldrums.
He is professionally very successful, is a key figure in the Rhode Island budgetary office, earns pretty well, is a good guy overall, very smart but he just seems to be lacking in the social realm, ever since his wife left him a few years back, just hasn't been the same. He's always been a bit of a workaholic but since then that is all he does. I usually just listen but I don't really have too many answers. He's 35 and trying to come to terms with middle age, realising that everything is downhill from now on, parents dying, friends fading out, etc. I guess he has come to the conclusion that dedicating all his time to his job has left him unbalanced in other areas. I made some suggestions but no idea how he could change that. Ideas? cheers