There’s a version of masculinity that says you should always be doing something. Working, socializing, building, competing, producing. Downtime is for when you’re sick. Being alone is what happens ...

Modern life is full of interruptions. Notifications, social media, meetings, phone calls, and conversations constantly compete for our attention. While collaboration and social interaction are ...

Finally, the door closed and the noise stopped. I was in my bedroom, my own bedroom, with the lights turned perfectly low and no one else around. It was the holiday season, and I had just spent nearly ...

Over the past few years, experts have been sounding the alarm over how much time Americans spend alone. These trends coincided with the surgeon general’s 2023 declaration of a loneliness epidemic, ...

Even before the pandemic, fretting about loneliness had become a national obsession. People feel lonely when they are not getting the amount or the quality of time with other people that they want.

Many people believe spending a lot of time alone means being lonely, so they do everything they can to avoid it. They send texts and scroll social media to distract themselves, which holds them back ...