Loneliness has nothing to do with how many people are around you or how much stuff you have. It’s the absence of a connection to the people around you.
Having family doesn’t mean having support or love blood also doesn’t equate family. And you can be lonely with people next to you. I’m not lonely when I’m alone.
Lonely and alone are two different things. The only thing worse than being alone is being around people that make you feel alone, although this may not be the case with you.
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” — George Burns
The times in my life when I’ve felt the most lonely was when I was surrounded by people. To not be understood, to not be held and embraced and heard, is what makes me lonely.
The past year has taught me I have incredibly little in common with my family, like to the point of I get great amount of anxiety when I have to even visit them/force conversations to not be uncomfortable. I enjoy my wife way more with our dogs and my friends even though I only have a few of them, I’ll take 4 homies to a big family anyday
You could have a full house and still feel alone. Loneliness is an internal existence exasperated by external factors. The conversations I have with myself are better than any I’ve ever had in society with other people.
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Yes
Plenty of people are not close to family. Plenty of others even want nothing at all to do with their families. So yeah.
You can have a lot of everything and still bi’m stuck at a desert island and your own head the loneliest person that ever lived
Loneliness has nothing to do with people around you. Loneliness is something from within.
it’s called black sheep syndrome. you have to choose, do you conform to fit in or live by your own rules.
lived it. hang in there. you’ll make it.
Loneliness has nothing to do with how many people are around you or how much stuff you have. It’s the absence of a connection to the people around you.
Having family doesn’t mean having support or love blood also doesn’t equate family. And you can be lonely with people next to you. I’m not lonely when I’m alone.
Lonely and alone are two different things. The only thing worse than being alone is being around people that make you feel alone, although this may not be the case with you.
Definitely
All my extended family is old and MAGA.
Fuck em.
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” — George Burns
The times in my life when I’ve felt the most lonely was when I was surrounded by people. To not be understood, to not be held and embraced and heard, is what makes me lonely.
The past year has taught me I have incredibly little in common with my family, like to the point of I get great amount of anxiety when I have to even visit them/force conversations to not be uncomfortable. I enjoy my wife way more with our dogs and my friends even though I only have a few of them, I’ll take 4 homies to a big family anyday
You could have a full house and still feel alone. Loneliness is an internal existence exasperated by external factors. The conversations I have with myself are better than any I’ve ever had in society with other people.
Yes, I don’t care to go into why I know this, with absolute certainty.
Of course. I have a huge family, but I don’t know most of them. And I don’t really communicate with other members because they don’t understand me
Absolutely. Not uncommon