I'm OK. I'm happy with my own company but also have an active social life. I have some people who are important to me, but we don't live in each other's pockets. People who could/should notice for me are :
- Work. Probably the first, but I work PT, term tie only so there are long spells when they wouldn't
- Adult DC. One away at uni. I speak to him approx fortnightly and message now and then, but it all comes from me. I'm not sure how long it would be before he realised he hadn't heard anything for a while. The other son is very loved up and newly living with GF. Contact with them is similar TBH.
-My parents. They probably would check if they hadn't heard anything for a week.
-I'm very active in a club and have people I'd call friends there, but I'm not sure anyone would check in until I'd missed several sessions.
-Friends I have friends I see every few weeks but no one I'm in touch with daily or even weekly. Contact tends to be when we have a "reason", plans to make, something to ask, a birthday to mark iyswim
I'm thinking about it because before DH died, he had an incident when he got stuck in the bath. We had to call an ambulance and they sedated him to be able to move him to hospital.
I could be there for days and it's playing on my mind a lot. Even if people realised I hadn't been in touch, I don't known if they'd take imeadiate action.
What "precautions" do people who live alone take?