I know he's afraid of being alone, because the longest amount of time he's spent alone was the few months after my parents separated. He doesn't know how to exist alone. He doesn't have friends that are just his friends, because he drove them away for stepmonster (she hated his friends). So now it's just him. And our family. But I don't even know if anyone else knows what's going on. I'm also so far away that I don't even know what I can do to help him understand that being alone isn't the end of the world. It all just feels like empty words.