An evening shared comfortably lets people recover at different speeds in the same place.

Company and conversation are not the same requirement. A good evening can hold one person who wants to talk, one reading, one half-asleep on a sofa, and nobody is failing at it. What makes that possible is an unspoken agreement that being present is enough, so nobody has to perform energy they do not have. Recovery runs at different rates, and a room that allows for that is more restful than one where everyone is expected to match.

Let an evening go unstructured this week and see who settles where. Saying that you are happy just to sit is often the permission somebody else was waiting for.