This is an advice column, not a matchmaking service, but were it not for the 1,100 miles separating your homes and my lack of an expense account, I would force you to sit in a room together and solve this for each other. You share the same problem — and it is not the fact that you work from home.

You’re relying on your job for too much of your life fulfillment.

Look, I get it: You and your student loans scratched and clawed your way to a position that pays well enough and doesn’t make you totally miserable and perhaps even sounds a little impressive to your mom’s friends, and now a stranger on the internet is telling you that you’ve been duped into believing that any of it matters, and that the real path to happiness involves macramé or jujitsu or intensive Torah study. But duped you have been!

Sarah, you are romanticizing office life far more than any cheesy movie about a co-worker meet-cute. I am writing this at noon from my 200-person office. Here’s the extent of my human interactions with colleagues so far today:

I told someone his new hair color looks good; he thanked me.

I said “good morning” to the only guy who got to the office before me; he repeated the greeting and we exchanged two sentences of banter about the N.B.A. playoffs.

A woman I work closely with waved to me, silently, while on the phone.

That’s it! Every other conversation has happened on Slack. Does your company use Slack, the messaging service that has replaced face-to-face communication? It is mostly a waste of time and also, according to nearly every remote worker I know, a total sanity saver because it allows you to discuss “Chernobyl” and swap dumb jokes with someone other than your dog or your toddler. If you spend much of your workday on the phone, taking your calls near other humans is not going to make you feel any less isolated, but an occasional videoconference meeting and a virtual place to drop in tweets that enrage you will help break up the day.

But when you’re looking for “outside-the-box” advice, you need a bigger fix than a chat room. Your job is not your life, and the question you need to ask yourself is not “How do I improve my job?” but “How do I improve my life?” Your loneliness is a real problem, and a common one. But the real problem underlying that real problem is that you see no opportunity for fulfillment outside work.

Adjusting to life in a new city is difficult, and parenting two small hellions is almost unfathomably difficult, so it’s not tough to see how dealing with both of those things at once could make you despair that you’ll ever escape your home again. But you are in desperate need of friends and hobbies and fortheloveofgod an occasional baby sitter so you can connect with real live adults in a far deeper way than water-cooler chat allows.