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Loneliness

Even Though It's a Unique Experience, Losing Someone You Love is Always the Same

Claire Bidwell Smith | Posted 11.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Bereavement, Loneliness, Loss, Grief Support Groups, Grief, Death, Group Therapy, Living News
Claire Bidwell Smith

It can be comforting to look into the eyes of another who wakes in the morning whose first thought is of loss, and the same true before they fall asleep at night.

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Balancing Motherhood, Marriage and Friendship: An Interview With Allison Winn Scotch

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Allison Winn Scotch, Maintaining Friendships, Time, Living News, Relationships, Infertility, Motherhood, Random House, Female Friendships, Virtual Friends, Isolation, Time of My Life, Friendship by the Book, Marriage, Loneliness, 30-Something, Weinstein Company, Syle, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Time of Your Life tells the story of Jillian -- a thirty-something, married, suburban mother -- who suddenly sees her life playing out a different way than it did seven years ago, jumps to fix it, and takes the reader along for the ride

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Like Your Time Alone? Then This Post is For You

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Households, Aging, Divorce, Relationships, Loner, Daphne Merkin, School Shooters, Serial Murderers, Singles, Imagination, Atlantic Magazine, Work From Home, Happiness, Sociability, Isolation, Solitude, Anneli Rufus, American Psyche, Loneliness, Ostracism, Kids With Rooms of Their Own, Small Talk, Living Independently, Pseudo-Loners, Living Alone, Singled Out, Jonathan Rauch, Introvert, Demographics, Boredom, Living News
Bella DePaulo

I live in the most ordinary American household - I live alone. Knock on any door in the nation and you are more likely to find a household like mine t...

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The Opposite of Voyeurism: Why People Twitter

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living

Read More: 1984, Friends, Twitter, Digg, Second Life, Cavemen, Facebook, Culture, Friendship, Internet, Loneliness, Youtube, Robert Scoble, Dystopian Films, Blogging, Living News
Michelle Haimoff

Observing large-scale technological phenomena informs us about where the culture's at these days; Twitter might indicate that people are lonely.

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Just Think

Richard Laermer | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Iphone, Blackberry, Thinking, Loneliness, Modernity, Solitude, Media News
Richard Laermer

What if restaurants put a bin near the door for our cell phones, Blackberries, etc? Consider what would happen when our dining companions got up to use the bathroom, leaving us alone. With our solo thoughts.

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Cannes 2008: No Love in Two Lovers

Karin Badt | Posted 06.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Loneliness, Cannes Film Festival 2008, Two Lovers, Gwyneth Paltrow, James Gray, Cannes Film Festival, Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

In James Grey's new movie Two Lovers, no one finds mutual love. Each says to the other: "You deserve to be loved", while the recipient of the sentiment longs for someone else.

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How To Lift Yourself Out Of Loneliness

Catherine Specter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Loneliness, The Balanced Life, Living News
Catherine Specter

Q: I think loneliness is such a universal yet under-discussed subject--maybe because it's sort of taboo. No one wants to admit to being lonely for fe...

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