At 45, one woman realized that loneliness isn't simply about being single. It's about the quiet belief that something must be ...

Psychologists who study women's identity at midlife have found that women who built their lives around expectation often ...

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 ...

Loneliness is not evenly spread, even among older adults. Men, for instance, are more likely to be lonely than women but so are people who are not working, make less than $25,000 a year, live in rural ...

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 ...

Is this person feeling lonely? Or happy to be alone? Source: Sindre Fs/Pexels Being lonely is a feeling. It’s about feeling disconnected from others, not having the kind of social contact and ...

It’s no secret that our generation is experiencing record rates of depression and isolation. Among workers aged 18-22, over 73 percent report feeling alone sometimes or always. Loneliness is a silent ...

The term “lonely parent” may seem like a contradiction in terms. Parents, by definition, are inextricably linked to at least one other human, after all—their child. And parents are constantly ...