I'm a pretty powerful extrovert, but I need alone time on a regular basis to decompress and not be "on stage" for a bit. I have a friend with a very similar per

I'm a pretty powerful extrovert, but I need alone time on a regular basis to decompress and not be "on stage" for a bit. I have a friend with a very similar personality in this regard. Sometimes we'll get where we can be around each other, but not anyone else - so we have company, but company that gets it. My wife is an introvert. We find parties and big social activities exhausting in very different ways. Her, because it involves a lot of social interaction she doesn't want to do. Me, because I feel I must go around and charm everyone, which is actually very tiring.