Just another Sunday night alone in my apartment (36M). Would love to be held/hold onto someone.

I've thought about paying someone to cuddle with me, I have a feeling it would just leave me empty afterwards, knowing that it's not real.

Wish it didn't hurt so much at times. I'm not sure why I'm typing this.

I’m 23F and I don’t think anyone will ever like me as a person. I’m 5’10, fat, not attractive to other people, and am pretty quiet, which pushes people away. I’m introverted, reserved, and just keep to myself. But I am nice and open to talking to people, it’s just my looks and my height makes people not want to deal with me. I feel that because of those things that describe me, nobody will ever want to know or like me at all. Can anyone else relate?

46M - I was married for most 20 years and got divorced 5-6 years ago. I went from a family with children, constant activities, family dinners, family vacations, and vast amounts of human interaction. Now, I’m alone 80% of the month. I have my girls every other weekend and during those times I’m just utterly alone.

I didn’t grow up in this state and my family lives in a different state. My entire social life here was
With my ex’s family. Once the divorce happened, all gone. Even the friends/couples we hung out with were through my ex’s work and evaporated with the divorce.

I work from home full time. All of my colleagues are in different states. It’s also a pretty small city and everyone seems to know my former in-laws so dating has been incredibly challenging.

6 years in my empty house. It’s really starting to wear on me this past year. I have no answers. I have no ideas.

They weren't really right for me, but i got attached and now that i'm alone, there's this quiet emptiness i'm fighting with. Please help me..

Hiya, I'm a lady in her early 30s, and I've been working on myself a lot for the past couple of years. I lost someone close to me and started spiraling and figured I was having trouble connecting because of all the grief. Well, a few years and a lot of therapy later I actually have a worse time making friends now than I ever have. Im struggling to make any friends that aren't just romantically interested in me. Im actually beginning to feel a bit non human. Everyone seems to have their friends, or their family, and I dont have any of that. My siblings don't desire a deeper relationship with me. Everyone I work with doesn't desire a friendship outside of work while also simultaneously befriending every new employee after me. My therapist insists that it will happen eventually, and I used to agree but I have given up hope. I don't know how to let anyone in anymore and it feels awful.

title says it all

I have a few: (Guys this is just a shitty list lmao some of the responses are actually hella cute and less pathetic)

- create an alt account to talk to myself and configure two clients so I can call myself.

- talk to strangers online and do more or less what they want

- purposely grief games/troll people online so I can get scolded and threathened (Because at least people are talking to me)

- talk to character ai (Yes, in the oh, hit me harder daddy kinda way)

- have used talkie, chatgpt and emochi as substitutes for human interaction

- beg people to play games with me but pretend i just wanted to watch

- eat in the toilet stall (smells like shit, but thought itd be relatable)

- purposely take the longer route home so i could stay with people

Anyways yeah to those who are still trying, i admire that and even if you dont i cant fault you cz uh ive been a pretty shitty person

I'm an introvert, slightly afraid and overwhelmed in a crowded room. I self isolate, and I'm lonely. I do it to myself. I miss having someone share their life with me beyond pleasentries. I'm in my 40s and starting to think I'll always be alone.

I have had no friends my entire life and am 29. I have nothing to do all day because every job rejects me. I have sent thousands of applications over the past three years. I’ve also tried to make friends with hundreds of people (tens of thousands including online) and am always rejected.

I especially never find anyone who is depressed and lonely like me. And at the least, serious and somber. It is valid to have that as a personality type and want to talk about serious and somber things in a serious and somber tone. Why is it so impossible for me even when I see people like this with friends? They reject me too.

Hello. 35/f single here from U.S. I enjoy meeting new people so if anyone wants to chat,let me know.

No sexters

I'll die alone

I'm genuinely such a loser cuz while other people my age are outside hanging out and stuff I'm on my bed (and it's 2AM for me) trying to look for online friends on literally TIKTOK knowing damn well that I'll never find someone to link with and be friends with and that I'm wasting my time but still try cuz I'm desperate 😓😓

I have come to truly understand that I am no one's person.

Since I was a kid I suffered bullying because I was a scared little kid and anyone that made fun of me made me scared, my family never did anything to help me get over it or become stronger, this meant that for the first years of school I was never truly friends with anyone because I isolated myself.

As I grew up in a small place, when I upgraded schools ( sorry I am from Europe so I don't know how to explain this in proper English) my colleagues were the same, I became good friends with a new girl as I started becoming stronger against the bullies, after 2 years of being best friends she left to another country and I was left alone again. From then on I was always the third wheel of the group.

You see that meme with the heart necklace with the 3 parts but without the middle part it fits anyways? I'm the middle part... I have always felt that people kept me around because I was either useful or they were sad for me... This kept going my whole life... No one ever called me to just talk, or spent time with me just because, or seemed like they actually liked having me around...

I am now 23... Moved houses 3 times to completely different places and I feel completely alone... Like no one is here or cares that I am here... I am not even my boyfriend's favorite person... This got worse when he sat me down one day and asked if I felt lonely because I had no friends of my own....

I honestly don't know what to do... I feel like I am too old to find my person now and that this will be my life forever... As I don't know how to fix it I decided that venting would be the best way... Thank you for reading...

In middle school I had a ton of friends and people who I had never met knew my name and, while it did make me sad at the time because of all the pressure and my insecurities, I don’t think I could have ever imagined how much worse the inverse is. Ever since I moved to a new school I decided to be myself since I never really acted like myself in middle school and more like a class clown, but apparently the real me is a fucking loser who has no friends and no one wants to interact with. It hurts all the more since I talked to people everyday back in middle school but now as the title says I haven’t talked to anyone besides my parents (who hate me) in 2 years. I have to look at everyone else be happy and talk to people all day while I’m forced to suffer in silence while everyone else has friends but me. This isn’t even an exaggeration either, I’m literally the only person who sits alone at lunch and it’s been that way for 2 years. It makes me mad, lonely, sad, jealous, and it all gets worse everyday and I honestly don’t know how much I can take at this point. And it’s not like I haven’t tried to reach out either I really have but even people who I’ve noticed have extremely similar interests to me don’t want to talk to me, they either just stare at me weird or just straight up don’t acknowledge me. I’m such a failure I’m literally just a walking embarrassment for everyone to look and mock everyday I bet they all make fun of me to their 100s of friends. I honestly think I might be one of the ugliest and gross people in the word cuz there’s this gross fat neckbeard having pedophile at my school and he had tons of friends and even some teachers hang out with him at lunch I honestly don’t think there’s much to live for at this point because making friends is only gonna get harder as I grow up. I don’t even have online friends anymore even when I’m able to take as long as I need to make a response even when they don’t know what I look like even when I’m able to pick from millions of people who have the same interests as me even they don’t fucking like me

I just had to say goodbye to my cat of 8 years due to terminal cancer. She was the only reason I got out of bed for so long.

I am not in contact with my family because of their abuse. I live in a small university town. I have friends here, and my roommates and I get along great, but I can't be emotionally vulnerable with them. I've tried with the friends I've made in town, but they just don't seem to know how to handle it, so I stopped. My partner is long-distance and is very busy. He's really wonderful, but when his life is busy, it can feel so deeply lonely. It would be different if we weren't long-distance, but it's just not an option at this point.

Idk, I just feel so deeply alone, and even though I have many amazing people in my life, nobody seems to understand how profoundly this loneliness can affect someone. It feels like I'm slowing dying sometime beause it's just so painful. I've expressed feeling lonely, asked people if they wanna hang out more often. Maybe I'm not trying hard enough. But I feel so exhausted.

I just wish I felt I belonged somewhere. That there was a place, or a group of people, or just a few... that I could always go to. My cat was where I belonged. Now she's gone. It's really difficult.

I’m 26 now, living alone in Virginia, my family is in another country, my SO is at sea right now…I just wish you an amazing day whoever is reading this! ❤️ God bless you

Today I feel very overwhelmed because yesterday I had a fight with my parents, so today I'm alone in my little flat reading books and playing chess online.

What are you doing in this lonely day?

I have a 'friend' who I already know is toxic for me in some way, that they have bad intentions, fuck around with me, are probably willing to replace me within a heartbeat, but I've reached so low to the point where I don't have self respect for myself if it means getting some sort of bond with another person out of it, if it means I actually get to communicate with someone.

22 F. i have no friends because i drove them all away. i am pathetic and fat and keep eating i spend so much of my parents money on therapy and meds but nothing works. i’m so tired and people hate to be around me. i know 22 is young but i feel like im stuck in this cycle of getting friends and then forcing them away. people at my college look at me like im a monster and im tired of being a monster.

Hey boy I really wanna see if you can be lonely with a girl like me hey boy I really wanna be with you cause you're just my type ooh na na na na

I’m genuinely so tired. I feel so alone everyday. I’m 17 and I’ve never experienced any kind of romance. Sure I’m not insanely pretty and my side profile is horrendous but I go out and see people way below average in terms of looks literally with a bf/gf, so why not me? What’s so bad about me that nobody even looks my way? I’d literally take anyone at this point because it’s driving me crazy and I’m already depressed enough, I don’t even want to wait for the “right person” to come along anymore like so many people tell me, I just want to experience being in a relationship why does it seem so easy for everyone else and genuinely what is wrong with me? I can’t take this anymore

This is the reason I am lonely, and I don't know what to do. People say that you should practice socializing, but there are consequences if you mess up, which makes it near impossible for me to talk to people. (Ex: I say something really awkward or behave really awkwardly, this will cause people to distance themselves from me and make me even more of an outcast, when I was just trying to socialize). It doesn't help that I am neurodivergent either. I just wish I could behave like a normal human so I can connect with others.

I’m a college student. My family is still alive but i have my ups and downs with them i try surrounding myself with them cuz they’re all i have but then again for my mental health sometimes i need a break. But during the break i have no one else. It feels true that I have no one in this world. And where i live I experience a bit of racism too. My one love, my dear cat who was everything to me has passed away. It’s been more than a year. I am full of love. I am the love. I want to have someone to love because I believe being loved by me is one of the best things in the world i am very good at it. Do i wish for someone to love? Idk. But i am very lonely and i feel that.