I am trying to come to terms with the fact that I’ve struggled with avoiding being alone for a long time. I’ve been that way since I was a child and for more than two decades now, I have been in a relationship – one after the other. Though I never seek out to have a long term, the last two times it just happened that way.
Now I’m realizing that maybe I don’t know to be alone. And that I am scared of feeling lonely. I want to know how to accept and cope. I want to work on embracing spending time with just me, and not seeking fulfillment from a partner or needing a partner to balance things out. Or even always needing to reach out to a friend so I don’t feel “alone.”
How do you accept that you are enough and not feel lonely?