Anyone else have a lonely teenage who finds mixing and making friends a struggle. Mine is 18 and has everything going for him -( good looking, fit, bright enough - stuff other kids might notice) he’s just incredibly shy. He’s so lonely it absolutely breaks my heart. I remember being lonely for a while too when younger- it was soul destroying. How do you cope if you’re a mum in the same position. What makes you hopeful for the future if anything? Would I be unreasonable just to trust to fate and think things will improve somehow. He’s been lonely and withdrawn socially pretty much since lockdown. He says he’d love to go out just doesn’t know how to make friends and ask to join in stuff. I feel so so inadequate as a shy mother myself. Feels like I’ve damaged him irrevocably.