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Post by TMD on Jun 23, 2017 22:29:25 GMT -5
Lonely for me is that yearning for connection with someone that is supposed to love me. I don't mind being alone. Seeking the company of others is easy. I send a text to start a conversation with my best guy friend or I go to the gym to be around other people. Alone isn't necessarily lonely. LOL. I normally try to read through a whole thread so I don't repeat what others' say. I also made the distinction between being alone and being lonely. |
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Post by Rhapsodee on Jun 24, 2017 11:27:27 GMT -5
This is what lonely feels like:
Yesterday, he was standing beside me while I sat at the kitchen table. I pressed myself into his side body. He pressed back. My entire body and soul started absorbing him. I felt like I was home from a long trip. I know the only way I can feel that is if it is coming from both of us. Then he moved away from me to finish making coffee. It was over.
I sat there a moment and marveled at how he can still have that effect on me. I have never had that sensation with anyone else. I can't describe it. It's almost like a completion that I'm being denied and that I know I'm not going to find anywhere else. I think that is what is keeping me stuck here. Why I feel so lonely. Why I feel so hurt. Why I keep hoping. It is also why I am taking risks and striking out at him in self destructive ways.
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Post by solodriver on Jun 24, 2017 12:28:09 GMT -5
The sad part for me is that's the reaction I have when most any women leans against or hugs me. I'm so starved for physical touch and intimacy that any close contact with a woman does that to me. Sadly, my wife won't touch or have close contact with me at all.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2017 16:59:09 GMT -5
at first it was me and her against the world. Now it is me against her and the world.
I have no friends and no one to talk to about important things.
Lonely!
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Post by novembercomingfire on Jun 24, 2017 18:01:46 GMT -5
at first it was me and her against the world. Now it is me against her and the world. I have no friends and no one to talk to about important things. Lonely! I'm sorry. I know exactly how this feels. |
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Post by novembercomingfire on Jun 24, 2017 18:04:53 GMT -5
Nowhere to go. Nothing to do. No one to talk to. And this road stretches out as far as i can see. Very little hope for better.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2017 14:54:48 GMT -5
It's lonely enough being in a marriage where you can't share your thoughts with your partner without worrying it will turn into an argument or a fight, or that what you say might be used as ammunition against you in the future. So you have to bottle it all up inside.
But it's even lonelier when you have no one else you can talk to about it.
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Post by shamwow on Jun 25, 2017 18:05:55 GMT -5
I am on a weekend solo motorcycle trip across the Texas hill country. I don't feel lonely in the slightest. I feel emancipated.
Now when my wife and I shared a bed.... Different story.
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Post by rdp62 on Jun 27, 2017 3:22:49 GMT -5
There is something worse than loneliness it is aloneness, non existance a consciousness alone in an infinite black void that is the true reality
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Post by nolongerlonely on Jun 27, 2017 6:28:01 GMT -5
Well, for me, being lonely has been a result of being isolated from affection by my partner, and then feeling I am unable to tell my friends,relatives or children about it , as when I did tell a friend about 10 years ago, he just said 'you should leave and start again'. Those words it turned out were completely true. But having felt at the time to be completely trapped, and also lacking any level of self-esteem (having had it washed out of me by comments from my wife about my inabilities), it left me feeling unable to reveal my secret to others. The consequent feeling is to walk into a room full of people, often many of them people considered friends, and feel completely alone. Its been like that for a very long time, until I found this forum in fact. Its a truly unpleasant feeling. Oh, and being the sole provider for the household, with zero interest in supporting me emotionally in any way, made things entirely worse when financial circumstances worsened 9 years ago, leaving me unable even to speak to the person who caused the loneliness in the first place.
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