Mainly, it was a meditation on a new kind of life limbo, the newborn stage, as experienced by a radically unprepared new mom: isolated, overwhelmed, and seething with self-pity.
"I was alone, I was isolated, and my mom was sick," he recalled.
Church became a place to form social bonds, get dates, meet fellow moms isolated in suburbia, lose weight.
It must be very lonely to be a mom and isolated in this area".
For Ms. Van Buren, living in the suburbs with mom and dad means being isolated from the urban social life she had thought she would have after college.
By connecting with other moms you will not feel so isolated.
In this stalled, isolated life, Galen apparently interacts with nobody but his mom and a handful of other female relatives.
Some of Eisenberg's most effective humor pieces have been composed in the voice of resentful, isolated boys and young men, plagued by a monstrous mom or by endless love troubles.
But during his years of drug abuse, Mr. Vasquez said, he isolated himself from his family: "In the background, my mom was supporting me, but I couldn't accept it".
Nor even, as Marc put it, "the stay-at-home dad, who is cooed at for his sensitivity but who is as isolated and financially vulnerable as the stay-at-home-mom".
