Am I the only one?
Does anyone else feel lonelier when they’re with other people? Like whether that’s with your friends, family, and or partner.
I honestly feel less lonely when I’m alone.
It’s that feeling that nobody will truly understand you no matter how hard you try to explain.
Or the feeling of how you would drop everything and push your own emotions aside to be there for the ones you love, but it’s never reciprocated.
Growing up, I was taught to treat others the way I wanted to be treated… Now I’m wondering if that was a flawed philosophy.
@LeightonGrim I can say that I have felt the same way and I've come to learn that when you feel that way it's because the people around you do not either validate you or they don't seem to have the same interest as you so you always feel the same odd one out. I felt alone in a room full of 7 people because of this however now that I've been limiting my energy into people that don't reciprocate it back and actually been talking to some other people that actually hear me and validate me it makes me feel 100% better and not feel so alone or make it feel like my problems are all just because of me and not because of what my environment was. So somebody that felt the same way before I'm gonna say that your feeling is absolutely validated and there's this minor changes you can do so you don't feel that way. The way I started was I started realizing how when I limited my energy into different people such as talking with them or hanging out with them limited it made me feel that little bit better and then I opened up to more of what other people had to offer and made better friends. It hurts to say that my family and my spouse wears some of those people that made me feel more lonely when I was in the room with them than when I was with other people but just like everybody else I'm growing differently so that way I can be better not just for myself but for also my children.
@LeightonGrim
You are not alone many have same feeling... I am comfortable with myself and entertaining myself When i socialize in groups or around others and we talk about nothing and superficial and as you said if i do things for others all the time but no one is able to be there for me. sadly treat others like you would like to be treated was not taught to enough people ... many are very selfish.
