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The Young People Hiking Towards Friendship
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Tanyel Mustafa
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Friendship
Adult Sleepovers Are Giving Us What Big Nights Out Can’t
Tanyel Mustafa
26 Mar 2024
Book Club
The Answer To Loneliness? For These Women, It’s Book Clubs
Tanyel Mustafa
21 Feb 2024
Unbothered
I Felt Lonely At Work Until I Received The “Black Girl Smile”
Kedean Smith
31 Jan 2024
Relationships
Ask A Therapist: I’m Single & I’m Embarrassed About How Lonely I Am
Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 years’ clinic
by
Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Homepage
Why Your Casual Friends May Be Just As Important As Your Closest ...
In late 2020, six months into the pandemic, there were a lot of things I was missing. I felt nostalgic for my commute to the office, watching strangers and
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Gyan Yankovich
Friendship
There’s Nowhere To Hang Out For Free Anymore & It’s Making Us Lonely
Seeing friends in person is a constant struggle for Natalie, 24, who lives in Bristol and didn’t want us to use her last name. It’s difficult to find t
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
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Living
I Moved Across The Country To Combat My Loneliness
In December 2019, I anxiously awaited my Spotify Wrapped results, eager to know what they might reveal. I learned that I’d spent 44,000 minutes on Spotif
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Susan Akyeampong
Living
6 Women On Meeting Their Best Friend On An App
“Our first date was seven hours,” 37-year-old Haifa tells me. “It was a beautiful spring day and we walked along the river, stopping at a
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Elizabeth Bennett
Relationships
Loneliness Defined My 20s. Now I’m Happier Than Ever
It is embarrassing — shameful almost — to admit to being lonely in your 20s. At least that’s how I felt about it at the time. For a significant part
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Relationships
Ask A Therapist: I Barely Hear From My Friends Anymore. What Am I...
Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 year
by
Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Mind
Ask A Therapist: I Feel Left Out Because I Can’t Afford What My F...
Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 year
by
Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Friendship
Not Having A Friend Group As An Adult Hurts The Most
Everyone told us life would be so different after high school, how much we would grow and that so much would change — and for the most part, they were ri
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Nina Miyashita
Living
Grieving My Sister Online Made Me Lonelier Than Ever
Trigger warning: This article mentions the death of a sibling. When my younger sister suddenly passed away last October, I was overwhelmed by the support o
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Adele Walton
Single Files
Being Single Isn’t Lonely, It’s An Opportunity For Co...
In the established cultural imagination, the single woman is still kind of a tragic figure. Her mother worries about her; her smug friends are always threa
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Lauren O'Neill
Living
At 30, I Was Okay With Being Single — Until All My Friends Starte...
It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m heading to the pub to meet up with my mates, blissfully unaware that I’m about to be confronted with my s
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Alexandra Koster
Mind
There Are Different Types Of Loneliness. Which One Are You Strugg...
There are a few words I’d use to describe recent years, ever since the pandemic that started in 2020. One of those words would definitely be ‘l
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Aoife Clements
Wellness
No One Tells You About the Gut-Wrenching Loneliness of the First ...
For somewhere around three months, usually longer, you are invisibly pregnant. Your stomach doesn’t yet betray the geyser of life involuntarily erupting
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Kira Cook
Relationships
Ask A Therapist: My Friends Now Have Families & I Can’t Kee...
Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 years’ clinic
by
Sadhbh O'Sullivan
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Mind
The People Who Will Feel Even More Isolated When We Leave Lockdown
In retrospect, it was wild how quickly everything changed. Whether you saw the lockdown coming or were completely blindsided, the speed with which the foun
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Lonely Girls' Club
What I Learned About Loneliness After A Divorce In My 50s
At one of the loneliest points in my life, I joined a friend and her daughter for a week’s break in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. “You said you were lone
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Carolina Gonzalez
Lonely Girls' Club
I'm 28 & My Best Friend Is 100 Years Old
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Zoe Beaty
Lonely Girls' Club
The Lonely Island: Meet The Women Who Live On The Isolated Isle O...
The Hebridean island of Eigg is home to one of the most isolated communities in the UK. What is it like to live an occasional, meandering ferry-ride away f
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Tom Seymour
Lonely Girls' Club
"At Weekends I Don't See Anybody": What It's Like To Be Young & L...
Thanks to a plethora of recent surveys and news stories on the topic, the loneliness epidemic among young people is finally getting the airtime it deserves
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Natalie Gil
Lonely Girls' Club
A Year Ago I Admitted I Was Lonely On The Internet. Here's What I...
A year ago this month, Refinery29 contributed to the ongoing loneliness conversation with one woman's personal story, titled “At Weekends I Don&
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Natalie Gil
Lonely Girls' Club
"I Have Likes, But I Don’t Have Friends": Teenage Girls Talk Lone...
They spend most of the week in classrooms surrounded by 30+ other children and when they’re not at school, they’re at home in the company of family or
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Sarah Raphael
Lonely Girls' Club
Yes, You Can Still Feel Lonely While In A Relationship
I’ve discovered that I’m very good at stumbling into relationships. Not entirely unconsciously, of course – it’s hard not to notice you've got
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Jazmin Kopotsha
Lonely Girls' Club
3 Women Who Beat Loneliness & Found Their Best Friends Online
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Amy Sedghi
Lonely Girls' Club
26 Different Places Real Women Made Friends As An Adult
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Jess Commons
Lonely Girls' Club
How I Deal With Loneliness When My Disability Stops Me Leaving Th...
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sarah Alexander (@fromsarahlex) on Dec 7, 2018 at 4:25am PST Loneliness has become one of the greatest challen
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Cristiana Bedei
Lonely Girls' Club
Why Can't We Be Honest About How Lonely We Are?
Do you get lonely? I do. There have been times in my life when I have felt so lonely that I've struggled to think of one person in the world I can tur
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Jess Commons
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