I'm a teenager who threw away her social life for birds practically. If i tried to have a sleep over, Mel would pluck out her feathers again like last time. I go over my friend's dorm for maybe like 2 hours every 2 weeks at most. I'm never going to get the real college experience as I'm just going to do online and only go on campus for labs etc. If we go to my grandma's for a night or something, we always bring the bigger ones. Isla, Bee, and Mint don't usually care too much, they have eachother.
We are all a stickler for routines now, I used to go to bed at like 5am every day and wake up at 3pm. Now I wake up at 7 and go to sleep at 8-10. My entire day is spent with them, if I'm not with them, I'm doing something for them like making toys or making breakfast. If I don't stick to the daily routine, anything makes Mel start plucking again, literally even putting her to bed an hour later or before her normal bedtime. So i stick to it.
I work two times a week in the evening and I feel bad for even that but they're only alone for 2ish hours and lately they're never alone since my dad has been working at home since March due to you know what.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade this for anything. I love all my animals more than anything and I'm honestly very happy everything ended up like this. I never thought I'd progress from a lovebird to a macaw. But everything is different and everything has to be changed when you own birds especially multiples. (I just woke up a little bit ago so I'm sorry if this is hard to understand)