She talked about it with a kind of pride, the way people do when they've figured something out that everyone else is still ...

Two people can spend the same Saturday alone. One of them is resting. The other is suffering. The difference isn't the ...

I spent a Saturday recently all by myself. I went to a farmers’ market alone, sat in a coffee shop alone, cooked dinner alone, and watched a movie alone. When a friend asked how my weekend was, I said ...

For many, the idea of a Friday night without plans is a source of "FOMO", aka Fear Of Missing Out. It may leave a lingering sense of inadequacy. However, for a significant portion of the population, ...

Solitude is often misunderstood and mistaken for loneliness when in reality, it's that people just love being in their own company. They don't shun connection, but they do take time to recuperate ...

For many of us, aloneness is a negative state of being. Society doesn’t help us with this notion either; being alone often carries a social stigma, implying isolation, being on the outside. This ...

In my work as a clinical psychologist, I’ve seen countless patients over the years with a similar presenting concern — the fear of being alone. They tell me about the discomfort they feel when ...

At some point in life, almost everyone has experienced the heavy weight of being alone. Whether it’s a quiet evening spent by yourself, a moment of heartbreak or simply feeling misunderstood, those ...

As Valentine’s Day approaches, people tend to think about romance and who they are with if anyone. “I’m alone, but I’m not lonely,” master criminal Neil McCauley, played by Robert De Niro, says in the ...

When I got divorced, I was so scared of being alone that I immediately went on the dating sites. I jumped into a relationship very quickly without realizing we had different values. When that ...

When I was growing up, I was never that kid who was afraid of the dark. Instead, I enjoyed some alone time in my room, with those wonderful, glowing stars on my ceiling. That preference has followed ...

There are various definitions of loneliness. Ewald W. Busse sees it as “the awareness of an absence of meaningful integration with other individuals or groups of individuals, aconsciousness of being ...