Why Can’t Men Be Alone?

My daughter and her husband are separated at the moment, because his work has taken him half a world away. She and their boys will be joining him at the end of the school term, which is three months away. She was telling me he is very lonely and hates it. He doesn’t know anyone in a strange country and is living in a rented apartment  and eating meals in a restaurant. Meanwhile, she’s back in Canada trying to manage three boys and a big house and school and hockey practices and would kill for a restaurant meal. We wondered together why men can’t be alone.