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Loneliness and the Need to Connect
I've never been able to handle being alone for very long. It's a bit of a running joke in our relationship that I'm not good at being alone. We all have different, because we all have different kind of experiences of being alone. And some people have a great deal of comfort being on their own. For others, we need this kind of sense of being connected all the time. Loneliness doesn't necessarily prompt the same kind of seeking out of resources as hunger and thirst do.