“I really feel loneliness in my chest.” “Only a heavy weight in your again.” “My profession has remoted me.” “I don’t have a companion. I don’t have children.” “Proper after I acquired married, folks simply fell away.” “As a single father or mother, there are these —” “Then I retired.” “My biggest worry is dying alone.” “It’s a doozy, loneliness. It’s a foul one.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “The emotions of loneliness and isolation that I really feel stem from dropping my dad to suicide at 12 years outdated.” “I really feel like I’ve at all times felt lonely. What did I do to run all people else away? I really feel like I — simply one thing that makes folks scatter.” “I really feel like if I don’t attempt to achieve success, I’ll at all times remorse not having tried. My loneliness finally ends up sort of being my punishment.” “Does all people really feel like this? There have to be one thing fallacious with me.” “Surrounded by folks however but you’re nonetheless feeling such as you’re not even round anyone.” “I’m at this wedding ceremony, and sort of like on reflex, I open up my telephone. I pull up a courting app, and I begin swiping. After which I go searching, and there’s simply so many individuals round me laughing and having a superb time, simply being loving with one another. Yeah, that was a second of feeling deep loneliness.” “You may attempt to do all the pieces attainable to discover a life companion, however you is likely to be single perpetually.” “Individuals can’t think about that you just’d be so lonely that you’d dread Thanksgiving and considering like, ‘Gosh, I hope any person invitations me.’” “As a single father or mother, I really feel prefer it’s crucial and largest factor I’ll ever do in life. And I simply maintain it to myself as a result of there’s nobody to share it with.” “I made a decision intentionally to not have kids, whereas all my shut associates determined the other. And as they had been focusing an increasing number of of their time on household life, I turned deprioritized.” “I might have by no means informed you that I might work this many hours as I do and I wouldn’t have a bunch of associates surrounding me.” “When my partner comes residence” “and he or she simply sort of goes off into her nook. And he or she’s the primary particular person I wish to speak to, and I’m the final particular person she desires to speak to.” “I’ve been a single mother for nearly 14 years. And I simply generally really feel like I need somebody to achieve out to me and maintain me.” “Buddies don’t wish to hear about how lonely I’m.” “It’s simply an excessive amount of burden to placed on.” “You don’t wish to add to their burden.” “— on different folks.” “I’ve been attempting to go to lunch with a colleague of mine on my campus for eight years, and it nonetheless hasn’t occurred.” “I assumed I used to be constructing a household that was going to be shut and related and doing issues collectively, and that hasn’t occurred.” “I used to be vital, proper? I mattered to folks. I assumed I did. After which I retired. And the isolation was deafening.” “I used to be identified with a really uncommon bone marrow most cancers. I’ve had sure family and friends disappear from my life. Such a deep disappointment over those that abandon you.” “The expertise of cross-dressing and conserving it secret marked me with loneliness throughout my total life.” “You have a look at the time, and also you go, “It’s 3:00,’ and you’ve got a lot of your day, and the telephone doesn’t ring. Nobody’s connecting with you, and also you marvel how one can make the day go by. For retirement, they used to let you know it’s the golden years. Properly, how can it’s golden if there’s nobody in it?” “I begin to really feel as if that is my punishment for not having kids. And I feel once you see Ellen — in a way, I discover myself saying, ‘You requested for it.’” “And he or she mentioned, ‘Bob, we’ve been married for 66 years, and we’ve got a lot to say to one another. Do you suppose different folks married this lengthy have a lot to speak about?’ And the following evening, she was gone.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “Attempt to keep in mind to choose up the telephone. You haven’t any concept how that sudden telephone name can change their day.” “It’s the youngsters saying, ‘Dad, I really like you’ and ‘How are you?’ And it’s additionally a superb good friend saying, ‘Bob, I don’t just like the sound of your voice. I’m coming over. We’re going to speak.’” “If I can get myself to choose up the telephone and name any person, any person else will say, ‘I’m feeling precisely the identical method.’ After which — poof! — you’re a part of the human race once more.” [MUSIC PLAYING]
