work on building your own self-esteem...the rest will come as you feel good and strong about yourself. just remember you always have a choice and when...
Paul, do you assume that one's loneliness is the cause of ones unhappiness? i feel lonely but i do not allow these feelings to control my life. i am in...
j i don't assume that loneliness causes unhappiness, it is a social pyschological reality extremely well documented. the cause of happiness is of course...
Hello All! Interesting thread! You've reminded me of a couple things...at the risk of annoying folks, here it is...: Â First:Â Lately I have begun to wonder...
Hello, Paul, My name's Bob. I'm not totally sure I understand every part of your reply, but the part I'm responding to, is the part about tying to make the...
hi bob, i am so impressed by your strength and hope people recognize how much they owe themselves to recognize what you "bring to the table," as it were. and...
Wow, Paul, You said it best, I think ("I think...therefore, I am over-qualified")...*ahem*... If I had instructors/facilitators (or parents, for that matter,...
lol! Ann, I completely understand your first point. I for one feel very lonely in my marraige...my husband lives in this cloud where "all we need is love", he...
you are kind but please i thank you, if it were not for people like you, well i guess first i would never had had anything to think much less care about...
heya mike, hi jami...just wanted to say hi...i still get every single post as i don't know how to un subscribe myself after two years..lollll...i'm down in...
I am also one of those people who tend to close myself off. I've had some betrayals, so for a while it became easier to not let anyone in. I'm still over...
it is a hard balance, i tend in the other direction, being too open and wanting more of a connection from doing so than i should expect, which also tends to...
if you don't make yourself vulnerable you never really get to feel whatever experience you are in fully....a closed off life is a life never really fully...
Mate, Looking from the wrong end of a wine bottle tonight- you may be wrong about no-one dies from gettin hurt. They can.. too many tablets and too many drinks...
hey deb...i'm so happy for you, I know how much you missed florida and the warm weather. make sure Bo treats you right...remember - don't let him cross your...
OMG - how ru - I am so happy for you that it seems things have taken a definite positive 180 for you. I haven't been on much due to going to school and stuff....
Well, If I could be like the guys in the movies "The Butterfly Effect" & "The Butterfly Effect 2" -- (or maybe more of a "hands-on-do-it-yourself" type, so I'd...
aww thank you gf....funny you should say that...been thinking of how i will keep from getting sucked up into him again...stay myself...i know it's a problem i...
makes you want to die sure...but you have to keep in mind that nobody dies from broken heart...you would be dying from taking pills...as one who has had her...
Deb, So very well put and oh how so true Hugs, Mike From: r m Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 2:10 AM To: webofloneliness@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: Web of...
thank you mike...hugggs back ... From: Mike K <macromike_7@...> Subject: Re: Web of Loneliness closing myself off To: webofloneliness@yahoogroups.com ...
Too busy a group and not enough opportunity to respond to any specific person or statement, so, I'm gonna try to address as much as I can. To those who feel...
...by choice, instead of circumstance, then it wouldn't bother me to be alone and not have anyone to love and love me back, like the peeps in a group I'm in...
Hi There, I keep reading your first sentence over and over. And over. ...Wish I was a loner by choice, instead of circumstance, then it wouldn't bother...
What gives is that you have isolated yourself. By avoiding social and family obligations over and over again you were not nurturing the relationships in your...
Hi Jami! Yes, I've isolated myself, ...and I think you are right on about the steps I neeed to take. And I'm starting to take them, slowly and probably...
Starting your own meetup group is not silly at all! It's rare to meet someone you instantly bond with...I have had that happen to me only once. Anyway....the...
I understand somewhat because I am involving in a lot of activities at church, in the community and I am married but I still feel like I am alone...I love...
I know we are all part of this because we feel lonely....I am happy 90 % of the time and lonely 10% of the time....but there are times that loneliness takes...
Well, I saw a promising Craig's List ad for platonic friendship from a woman about my age who was new to the area. We e-mailed a few times, then she didn't...