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From Our Sponsors: Make Them Remember You With A Gift From Lobster Gram!	*RELATIONSHIPS:* Loneliness - A Mobile Society's Emotion? From Singles, The Magazine for Today's Single Solitude, or being alone, and the experience of loneliness are not the same thing. You can be alone and savor every minute of it, or you can be lonely in the middle of a large crowd or a small gathering. Loneliness is the emotion you feel when you do not have supportive human relationships, whether those relationships mean being friends, lovers, family or neighbors. Many people think that if only they were married, or living with someone, they would not be lonely. But people need other relationships, too, to avoid feeling lonely. Years ago, people did not move far from where they grew up. Now, with the mobility of today’s society, people often do not live near their family or near the friends of their school years. They often live in a neighborhood of strangers. They may spend too much time watching TV or searching the web - solitary activities, not relating to people on a personal basis. Many people are ashamed of feeling lonely and are reluctant to admit to loneliness, even to themselves. All people feel lonely at one time or another, so it is best to accept your loneliness. However, there are various ways of dealing with loneliness and, in many cases, you can change the cause of your loneliness. So: 1. Identify the cause for you. Is it a social condition, a life style, easily changed, or personal, requiring counseling or a supportive social network. 2. Chart your loneliness. For example, if it occurs on Sunday afternoon, plan an activity for that time or any other time you have charted. 3. Turn off the TV and computer. Get out and cultivate people, pursue those activities you are interested in and meet similarly motivated people. Join groups, sign up for courses, get good at something. 4. Reconnect with people from your past, rekindle the friendship. 5. Accept your loneliness as a human emotion without stumbling into a destructive relationship. Do something about it. 6. Join a Singles Group, like the Single Adult Ministry our Publisher leads - SAM's Lambs in Webster NY, or Solo Flight - a National A Episcopal Singles organization with a Yahoo! group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soloflightepis/

Singles
The Magazine for Today's Single

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Make Them Remember You With A Gift From Lobster Gram!

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Loneliness - A Mobile Society's Emotion?

From Singles, The Magazine for Today's Single

Solitude, or being alone, and the experience of loneliness are not the same thing. You can be alone and savor every minute of it, or you can be lonely in the middle of a large crowd or a small gathering.

Loneliness is the emotion you feel when you do not have supportive human relationships, whether those relationships mean being friends, lovers, family or neighbors.

Many people think that if only they were married, or living with someone, they would not be lonely. But people need other relationships, too, to avoid feeling lonely.

Years ago, people did not move far from where they grew up. Now, with the mobility of today’s society, people often do not live near their family or near the friends of their school years. They often live in a neighborhood of strangers. They may spend too much time watching TV or searching the web - solitary activities, not relating to people on a personal basis.

Many people are ashamed of feeling lonely and are reluctant to admit to loneliness, even to themselves. All people feel lonely at one time or another, so it is best to accept your loneliness. However, there are various ways of dealing with loneliness and, in many cases, you can change the cause of your loneliness. So:

1. Identify the cause for you. Is it a social condition, a life style, easily changed, or personal, requiring counseling or a supportive social network.

2. Chart your loneliness. For example, if it occurs on Sunday afternoon, plan an activity for that time or any other time you have charted.

3. Turn off the TV and computer. Get out and cultivate people, pursue those activities you are interested in and meet similarly motivated people. Join groups, sign up for courses, get good at something.

4. Reconnect with people from your past, rekindle the friendship.

5. Accept your loneliness as a human emotion without stumbling into a destructive relationship. Do something about it.

6. Join a Singles Group, like the Single Adult Ministry our Publisher leads -
SAM's Lambs in Webster NY, or Solo Flight - a National A Episcopal Singles organization with a Yahoo! group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soloflightepis/