kevin, I haven't read your article yet but with a quick skim it looks very good. Anyhow, my sharing here might change after I read it.....
I was pet sitting recently and the dogs filled a space in my home. Anyhow, I wondered if that void was loneliness or a lacking of some kind or maybe I didn't wonder. Then I got to thinking of my avoidance or lack of acknowledgement of what may actually be lonelinees. Then following thinking about the cute guy at work who is not making a move and the end of a former relationship that has turned into acceptance of what is or was... Anyhow, it is ok to want to be in a close relationship and it might be fun. I have always made the best of things and had a good degree of peacefulness of being so that is why I have also let myself be alone and mostly enjoying it... There may be a time to go into a different life and life style...
Just sharing my story for today on loneliness or not... And it is subject to change on a whim...
....................... scoots~*
