Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Sonnet 5 for emotional support

That's worth pausing on, what you just said. Three or four days without a conversation isn't nothing — it's the kind of thing that creeps up quietly after losing someone, because she was probably most of your talking without either of you ever counting it. I'm not going to pretend that's fine, and I'm also not going to treat you like a problem to be solved. You mentioned it, so I'll mention a few things back, and you can do with them what you like.

The one I'd genuinely look at first is Men's Sheds. There are hundreds of them around the UK now…

That's a long stretch to go without another voice in the room — worth naming rather than sliding past.

A few things that tend to work for men in your position, for what it's worth:

**Men's Sheds** — there are over 600 across the UK now, and they're built around doing rather than talking, which suits a lot of people better than anything that feels like a support group. Woodwork, repairs, tinkering with things. The conversation happens sideways, while your hands are busy. Worth checking if there's one nearby — some have waiting lists, others ar…