Will has decided to start pursuing single mothers, whose loneliness makes them easy prey (especially when he invents a fictitious and always conveniently absent 2-year-old son to tug at their hearts), and who are sure to dump him quickly once they discover how irresponsible and childish he is, thus saving him the unpleasant task of dumping them.
All of Carson McCullers's fiction, from "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (1940) through "The Member of the Wedding" (1946), "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1951) and "Clock Without Hands" (1961), is concerned, at heart, with a single theme: the loneliness of isolated individuals and their painful yearning to connect.
The biggest pitfalls for single expats are loneliness and boredom.
The social situation of singles, with more loneliness and less support, could explain the association between being single and psychological distress.
Retirees would get to know young families; young families would have all kinds of support (tons of baby-sitting); singles vulnerable to loneliness would enjoy the privacy of their own home within the safety of a warm, connected group.
The social situation of singles, with more loneliness and less support, may be one explanation.
Tehran teems with some eight million inhabitants, but the approved works are often striking for their visual loneliness — a single child holding balloons as he drifts in the sky, or a lone young man cycling down the side of building.
But with so much of Iranian life centered on the family, many single women struggle with loneliness.
By Louisa Thomas Nick Kyrgios prefers doubles or team events to the loneliness of singles.
But ice fishing, you know, to me, that's about the loneliness and single-mindedness of writing.
