If loneliness is the symptom, then redesigning our culture for connection is the cure. That means valuing caregiving as infrastructure, not charity.

Research has shown that being in an intimate relationship can deter feelings of loneliness by satisfying a need to belong (Mund et al., 2022). This sense of belonging can act as a buffer against ...

DEAR ABBY: I’m in a sexless 25-year marriage. It was not always this way, but any intimacy has been over for more than a decade. My wife’s libido has waned, which I understand. What she does do is ...

For Jenn Ghigna (@sheppardafbrealtor), marriage to a pilot wasn’t all jet-setting glamor and spontaneous vacation. She is a realtor, and she was married to a pilot for 16 years. Now, she’s on TikTok, ...

I have been married for five years to a kind and honest man. While I know he loves me a lot, he is emotionally unavailable. I am his opposite; I am open, passionate and outgoing. This passive marriage ...

A woman shined a rather interesting light on why so many people feel lonely nowadays, arguing that it stemmed from their refusal to accept the work and commitment that growing and maintaining a ...

Loneliness can sneak up on us in all kinds of situations — eating dinner alone in front of your computer; hanging back at a party where you feel out of place; holidays spent far from home in a foreign ...

The term “lonely parent” may seem like a contradiction in terms. Parents, by definition, are inextricably linked to at least one other human, after all—their child. And parents are constantly ...

We humans are a highly social species, and we need deep emotional relationships with others to flourish in life. In adulthood, most of us turn to our spouses to meet the bulk of our companionship and ...