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no_hypocrisy

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1. Is this being alone or loneliness?

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Jan 3, 2025, 08:06 AM

Jan 2025

There's being lonely and solitude.

I engage in solitude. No anxiety or depression about being alone.

I can understand loneliness as you want to socialize but either you can't or you won't. As to the former, there are situations where people just don't want to be with you for a variety of reasons. And it may lie with who you are.

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