Bolde Media on MSN

I used to believe loneliness meant I had failed at relationships—until these 11 realizations reframed what that feeling was actually telling me

There was a stretch of time when the quiet in my apartment felt accusatory. Evenings arrived, and the silence seemed to ask ...

Psychology says the loneliness many 50+ women feel isn’t about being alone—it’s related to these 10 identity shifts

Psychologists who study women's identity at midlife have found that women who built their lives around expectation often ...
Jacksonville Journal-Courier on MSNOpinion

Commentary: How loneliness became a pandemic and what you can do — Llewellyn King

Commentary: In the box culture, people live in a box (apartment), ride in a box (elevator), get into a box with wheels (car), ...

The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

As loneliness deepens in one of the world's fastest-ageing nations, a network of women delivering probiotic milk drinks has ...
Opinion

Older Americans are lonely. It's a public health crisis.

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 ...
Dailymotion on MSN

Young and old together against loneliness

Young and old together against loneliness ...
Minnesota Daily

Opinion: You’re not alone in your loneliness

Is anyone else feeling lonely right now? It’s a question I ask myself, sitting on my bed after a long day of classes, homework and walking around campus by myself. I have friends I see regularly, but ...

I struggled to make friends after moving from D.C. to Pittsburgh — so I threw a party

I didn't expect moving for a lower cost of living would feel lonely. Throwing a neighborhood party changed that.
VegOut Magazine

I'm 70 and I raised two children alone for fifteen years — the loneliness I live with now is a different shape entirely, and somehow harder to name

After decades of being desperately needed—first by my children, then by my ailing husband—I've discovered that the peculiar ...
VegOut Magazine

6 things I learned about loneliness in my sixties that I wish someone had told me when I was still young enough to build a different kind of life

After burying two husbands and watching my carefully cultivated friendships evaporate like morning dew, I discovered that everything I believed about loneliness in my thirties was dangerously ...

Dear Annie: I moved for my husband’s job and lost my sense of identity

In today's Dear Annie column, a new empty nester shares loneliness after moving and asks how to build belonging later in life ...
Boston Magazine

When Did It Become So Hard to Make Friends?

Whatever their focus, all these groups share a common goal: helping people find connection, something ever more elusive these days. In 2023, the surgeon general declared that our loneliness epidemic ...