For my part, it's more a need for companionship than socialisation. One thing absolutely guaranteed to kill xmas for me is all the happy couples. That's the point I have to make my excuses and leave, as they say in Fleet Street.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'