Theresa May Appoints a Minister for Loneliness
Ahh, God, the world is bleak!
I Did Everything You Said and I'm Still Alone
Over the last 12 months, I have completely transformed my life in an effort to find love. I didn’t.
Loneliness Is Almost As Bad For Your Health As Smoking
Vivek H. Murthy served as the Surgeon General from 2014-2017, so you can probably consider him a health expert. He’s…
When Can I Say I'll Be Alone Forever?
Earlier this year, I went to a dinner party at a friend’s house. The household and guests slowly assembled in the…
Cat Wine Is Here to Enable You to Drink Less Socially
Is watching your cat drink a glass of wine the loneliest you can feel?
All of Ted Cruz's 'Friends' Ignored Him At Dinner
On Thursday evening, while Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders wore away at each other and the…
Woman Sent Online Stranger $1.4M, Is Desperately Hoping He's Real
A woman who sent an online stranger more than a million dollars without ever having met him is desperately trying to…
Lonely? It's the Best Time Of the Year to Start Dating Online
Dust off your OkCupid account and reactive that PlentyOfFish profile you'd almost forgotten about (almost); It's the…
Lonely? This Creepy Chair Will Wipe Away Your Tears and Hug You Tight
You know that feeling you get when you come home to an empty house with nothing but the TV to keep you company and a…
Psychic’s Trial Offers Testimony of Being Lonely in New York
Unless you’re an Immortal from the Highlander franchise, being alone can be pretty tough at times, and nowhere is one’s…
No Amount of Shopping Will Fill the Hole in Your Lonely Heart
If you're the kind of person who found both the book and movie for Confessions of a Shopaholic to be stunningly…
Social Isolation Might Be a Factor in Your Untimely Death
It was chanteuse Britney Spears who once sang, "My loneliness is killing me" — and, as is so often the case with…
Your Crushing Loneliness Might Be Making You Sick
New research presented this week at the annual meeting of the Insult to Injury Papercut Society suggests that chronic…
Ladies, Learn to Spend Some Time Alone
Cheesy name aside, the premise behind "Invite for a Bite," a female-only app that allows traveling businesswomen to…
You'll Sleep When The Crushing Loneliness Subsides
Some people love sleeping alone. Many folks prefer to have a warm body there in the dark with them, and there are those…
Hurricane Irene Was A Lesson In Loneliness
For one writer, the aftermath of Hurricane Irene provided "a kind of high school reunion with boredom." For me, it was…
Is Taking A Bath The Cure For Chronic Loneliness?
It's not even the end of the day and we're already reading a lot about how lonely everyone presumably is.
Divorce Makes Women Poorer, Men Lonelier
Divorce is no fun for anyone. But a new study shows that it affects men and women in different ways, with women more…
Does Celibacy Make You Crazy?
Victor LaValle's account of his two years of (almost) celibacy — alleviated occasionally by phone sex — makes the case…
Lonely No More: Isolation Comes Out Of The Closet
The title Lonely tends to conjure up words like shy, sad, and withdrawn, so it's something of a surprise that Emily…