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Do any of you only feel lonely when you're among others but not at all when you're actually alone? I would feel more alone among family I don't connect with than spend Christmas Day alone. How about you guys?
Uh yeah. When I am at a big family event where there is lots of action, screaming, yelling, famly drama...I just go into my head and think of HOW nice and queit my apartment is.
Do any of you only feel lonely when you're among others but not at all when you're actually alone? I would feel more alone among family I don't connect with than spend Christmas Day alone. How about you guys?
yep. Absolutely.
I can be superlonely in between alot of other people.
Do any of you only feel lonely when you're among others but not at all when you're actually alone? I would feel more alone among family I don't connect with than spend Christmas Day alone. How about you guys?
for sure!
I enjoy being alone in a crowd of strangers, but very uncomfortable/sad being ignored with those I "know"
Worse is that one charitable person that will say "come sit with us"
I'll be alone Christmas day, just like I was on Thanksgiving. It's just easier than spending the day with my older friend's family, none of whom care to talk to me at all, and his ex-wife who hates my guts and gets in her nasty digs at me out of his hearing.
I'll be so glad when the holiday season is behind us.
A lot of the sad people on this board who boost that they don't need to be with people on the holidays are in denial and are so very sad.
That's ridiculous. Some people are introverted. Introverts are often uncomfortable at any type of gathering. How are we in denial and sad? Pretty judgmental of you to say and you should have more wisdom.
A lot of the sad people on this board who boost that they don't need to be with people on the holidays are in denial and are so very sad.
The only sadness I have at the holidays is the fact that my grandmother, mother and father are all gone......the only people I would really like to spend the holidays with.
I feel sad for unemployed dudes who complain ad nauseum on the internet about getting fired, their families, modern technology and the fact that their son won't pay the bills for them.
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A lot of the sad people on this board who boost that they don't need to be with people on the holidays are in denial and are so very sad.
Amazing, so you have 'telepathy' and presume to know how other people really feel? And BTW, why are you so concerned whether others might be in "denial" or not… unless maybe the holidays always provoke a lot of anxiety inyou?!
I think a lot of this faux "sympathy" is similar to the ones who make a big deal about whether other folks are married, have kids, etc. or not…. 'cuz it's usually just their own fears, loneliness and insecurities speaking!
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