This Christmas, Don’t Forget To Reach Out To Your Struggling Friends
The holidays present a wonderful, idyllic (and idealized) opportunity to gather and reunite with friends and distant loved ones, but can also heighten a sense of isolation.
‘Scrubs’ May Be 17 Years Old, But Its Message On The Value of Social Ties Is More Relevant Than Ever
More than anything, ‘Scrubs’ is the story of how J.D.’s entrance into the adult world was shaped and supported by his friends.
Why Everything Is Wonderful But Nobody’s Happy, And What To Do About It
Never before in human history have so many, with so much, been so miserable. See, happiness requires the risk of unhappiness. The alternative to loneliness is the risk of heartbreak.
What Anthony Bourdain Reveals About Living In The Age Of Loneliness
The sharp knife is a tool: it can take a life, destroy in cruel fashion, but it also has the ability to create incredible things.
Yes, More Americans Are Lonely, But That Doesn’t Mean People Shouldn’t Bowl Alone
Recent data suggests loneliness is increasingly a feature in the lives of younger Americans. We should absolutely learn to be good neighbors, but that doesn’t mean never enjoying solitude.
Loneliness Is Fueling The Opioid Epidemic. Here’s How You Can Help
A compelling argument can be made that as America’s economic capital increased, its social capital declined. Both are affecting the opioid epidemic.
Netflix Thinks Your Holiday Loneliness Is A Punchline
The other day someone in the Netflix PR department thought it would be a good idea to mock some of their own customers for the streaming services’ latest production, ‘A Christmas Prince.’
How Sex Robots Will Annihilate Our Sense Of Reality
It is much more depressing to imagine this sex robot manufacturer’s version of his customers than to imagine horny idiots who just want to have sex with a humanoid hunk of plastic.
What Happens When Socialization Shifts From Front Porches To Coffee Shops
The contemporary coffee shop has become a setting where we go to do our work, browse the Internet, or carry out another kind of activity that entails little to no interaction with others.
I Bake New Neighbors Bread To Welcome Them, And They Never Say Hello to Me Again
I am glad I am this old so I don’t have to live in this cold, uncaring world for 50 more years. Many Americans appear to have become shallow, immoral, intolerant, and hateful.
Why ‘Fight Club’ Still Matters
‘Fight Club’s’ stark take on hopelessness and masculinity is more powerful today than when it was first written.
Building A Village Can Address The Lonely Compulsions Of Modern Parenting
We all need support and help, especially in an age where mobility and technology often drive us apart. Here’s how you can build community where you live.
Our Love Story Has Taught Us Not To Take Marriage For Granted
My husband’s illness robbed me not only of the strong man I had leaned on for all of our married life, but also of the little things I had somehow taken for granted.
Miscarrying While Feminist
A feminist hurtles into reality and finds ‘I felt not just invisible to the ideology I’d grown up with, I felt forsaken.’
Welcome To Selfie Nation
Many singles’ activists envision a utopia where legally isolating every individual expands freedom. That faux freedom binge will bring a lasting hangover.
What Andy Warhol Understood About Social Media
We can now carefully curate our lives on social media, creating a false “celebrity” persona to project to the world.
The Loneliness Of Not Knowing Ourselves
We desire to be known and to be loved. But we are often afraid and insecure, and so we hide behind technology to escape what we so desperately need.
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