Being alone can drive someone crazy, but being alone inside a concrete box can ruin a person.
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I've written a lot of songs about being alone, and then songs about being alone but being ok with it.
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"Being alone does not make a person lonely, but the perception of being alone is what makes one lonely," Cidambi said.
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" She continues, "Being alone doesn't mean you are lonely.
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" Instead, she said, "it's a record about being alone.
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"I'm happy being alone," one woman explains in the ad.
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"It was just being alone for so long," he says.
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Being alone with my baby was very difficult for me.
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The ENFJ is a people person and hates being alone.
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The yearning that comes from being alone on an island.
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He is far from being alone in touting this message.
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We know there's a difference between loneliness and being alone.
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone.
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Being alone with Rachel tends to go poorly for everyone.
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The lack of privacy and the fear of being alone.
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"You don't like being alone; that's okay," Klapow told me.
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She has never liked being alone, even as a child.
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Being alone, if a choice, may be good for some.
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But it also demands introspection and reflection, because only by being alone with our thoughts can an individual stay connected to his values and first principles; only by being alone can someone hear herself think.
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"John told her he was afraid of being alone," says Gillon.
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She told me that she was looking forward to being alone.
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She also chastised Kim for being alone in the luxury apartment.
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While she's happy being alone, she hasn't been spared of loneliness.
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Comey wasn't able to prevent himself from being alone with Trump.
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The situation has left teachers fearful of being alone with students.
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Being alone in the streets of Beirut was terrifying, says Behati.
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But that doesn't mean we can't work on being alone together.
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But, you survive... you learn that you can survive being alone.
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And being alone when facing charges like these isn't much fun.
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I grew up being alone, and I got used to it.
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It's being "alone together," as the sociologist Sherry Turkle puts it.
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They may be scared of being alone or desperate for connection.
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Unlike the Williams poem, it doesn't seem to celebrate being alone.
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After your breakup, how did you adjust to being alone again?
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There's no way around it: Getting comfortable being alone takes practice.
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"I got tired of being alone," McConnell said in an interview.
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If given the choice I would take partnership over being alone.
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I wasn't a lonely kid — I was good at being alone.
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I love being alone, so I'm not here to pathologize it.
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You'll learn to be so busy you don't even mind being alone.
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Lastly, I'm someone who's struggled with being alone for a long time.
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Because I have come to the conclusion that I hate being alone.
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I couldn't find the right words after being alone for so long.
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Research shows being alone may help you be more creative and productive.
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Another routinely called her mom at work, sobbing, terrified about being alone.
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For some single people, Valentine's Day is a reminder of being alone.
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I like being alone and never tried to go on a date.
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"I knew she was down and struggling with being alone," says Bendon.
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Like Burial, Hynes creates a sense of being alone yet also surrounded.
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The stigma of being alone is something that's dissipated with our generation.
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A less discussed privilege of men is being admired for being alone.
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It was his first time being alone with a woman in public.
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"Right now they have the benefit of being alone," Mr. Evans said.
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I was not only an only child, but I liked being alone.
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Let's go: Azealia Banks, "Used to Being Alone" "Used to Being Alone" finds Azealia Banks putting her trollish impulses to good use: she incorporated a sample used prominently in an Iggy Azalea song after beefing with her on Twitter.
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Daniels said Roe acknowledges being alone with the girl, but denies abusing her.
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Being alone is a mind game that you have to play with yourself.
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Given the option, having a digital companion may be preferable to being alone.
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What would you recommend to others who have a hard time being alone?
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You don't get into writing theater because you like being alone or protected.
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Even more important: Her survival is no longer defined by her being alone.
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But it also contains some weird messaging around being single versus being alone.
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So take some consolation in not being alone, if you're going through it.
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He enjoyed being around people and I don't think he liked being alone.
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But that was something I had to learn to cope with: being alone.
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I was little scared, but I was more scared of being alone, right?
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Their answers go to show that being alone doesn't always mean being lonely.
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I can't stand being alone, it's like having [boyfriend] die all over again.
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So if this includes you, know that you're nowhere close to being alone.
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Being alone, it means I can go ahead and do everything full-out.
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Being alone doesn't necessarily mean one is lonely, but the possibility is greater.
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A lyrical play about female desire, pleasure and competing fears — being alone vs.
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Being alone with the news now is not good for anyone's well-being.
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I could feel the reception in the air, could feel being alone again.
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But the feeling with which I returned home, always, was of being alone.
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Loneliness does not mean being alone; loneliness does not mean not having friends.
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It's an unnerving sensation, being alone with your thoughts in the year 2019.
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Being alone seems to have nothing to do with it — being distracted does.
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I'm tired of the war, tired of being alone when my friends left.
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Emma: I love being alone in the house, but sometimes I get scared.
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Listening to it feels like being alone in the woods—lost, vulnerable, and terrified.
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I went from being alone to having a full life with a beautiful family.
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From the start, though, Jenai is more withdrawn about being alone in the world.
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A fear of being alone, or not trusting that things are as they seem.
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Muna was not accustomed to being alone in the presence of an unknown man.
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Love freaks us out, whether it's a fear of commitment or of being alone.
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Being alone actually makes me more productive, thus allowing me to be more creative.
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It's being alone, being by yourself against your will, wishing that it weren't happening.
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"So much of this game is about that feeling of being Alone," I said.
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If so, what have you done to deal with the feeling of being alone?
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The terror of the dating app is less than the terror of being alone.
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It is the farthest you can get from being alone with a human woman.
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I'm extremely introverted in the sense that I get my energy from being alone.
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It's just so easy to do and no one bothers you for being alone.
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Sinclair: He's trying to find something else, instead of just accepting himself and being alone.
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How much is enough—enough to sustain us, to alleviate the feeling of being alone?
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Conveniences by way of technological advances are normalizing a culture of being alone with strangers.
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As a young Saudi guy, I was not used to being alone with a girl.
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"That's probably the hardest thing, just being alone all the time," Bieber said of touring.
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So I thought that if being alone was trés Français, then dammit, I'd try it.
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Fear of being misunderstood is now secondary to fear of being alone in your passions.
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Click here to view original GIFWhat's worse than being alone on a post-apocalyptic Earth?
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I remember just staring out the window, watching the cars go by, enjoying being alone.
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I think my ultimate nightmare is being alone, but not isolated, like, alone in anonymity.
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Yet, the How to be Single star reminds us that being alone isn't all fun.
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Eclipses are ultra emotional, and people's fear of being alone will come to the forefront.
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Sadly, many feel inclined to compromise on these issues because they're afraid of being alone.
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People are, it would seem, lonelier than ever and also less used to being alone.
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Being alone is a sign that something is about to go wrong, perhaps catastrophically so.
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Let us remember, however, that there is a difference between being lonely and being alone.
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But The Post did not say Ms. Anderson had described Mr. Trump as being alone.
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It wasn't until I was in my thirties that I experienced loneliness while being alone.
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You're not just starting with that horrible feeling of being alone in a big room.
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There, for a moment at least, they find companionship: What's more relatable than being alone?
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The most powerful media connects people, and people much prefer being connected than being alone.
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"I wasn't able to adjust after being alone and gone for so long," he says.
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My reality is being alone in my room, eating Flamin' Hot Cheetos and completely content.
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"Sometimes being alone in that time I took for myself, was my upgrade," she added.
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Being around people who were not my people made me feel lonelier than being alone.
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But, whatever they did, they could never free Jude from his fear of being alone.
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I think it taught me to be comfortable with being alone, and even enjoy it.
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My co-worker is still out but I'm used to being alone at this point.
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Ferbrache said she also loves being alone, and doesn't often feel lonely on the road.
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The regime once punished a rape victim for being alone with a male non-relative.
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Plus, Lopez explained to the magazine, she's overcome what she considered her greatest fear — being alone.
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You can't check out mentally; you have to be okay with being alone with your thoughts.
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Why is there a stigma about women being alone in public spaces and not a man?
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Also: A new capitalism; gender transition and loss; America's overstay in Afghanistan; being alone isn't bad.
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As I got older, my fear of being alone seeped into other parts of my life.
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I started taking myself out on a regular basis, slowly testing my threshold for being alone.
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It's just Ralph wanting to hang on to Vanellope because he's afraid of being alone again.
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I have friends who are having babies, and friends who are worried about being alone forever.
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She has never had to worry about being alone in her home in an emergency situation.
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Taking on all the work can be exhausting, and being alone is dangerous for some women.
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Just having that different language gave the experience of being alone a different meaning and value.
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She says that being hospitalized while getting treatment forced her to be comfortable with being alone.
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Being alone with your thoughts is a dark and scary prospect for a lot of people.
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There's a lesson in this movie about love, and companionship, and the fear of being alone.
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That's what the dating apps were for me — a way to distract myself from being alone.
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"Miles," the first single, is about going through change, but not being alone while it's happening.
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A second is to avoid being alone on your birthday, no matter how antisocial you're feeling.
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We wanted to capture the feeling of being alone in the galaxy, yet not feel alone.
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For a game about isolation and being alone, there is a real warmth about the experience.
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These days the thing you have to remember is that living alone doesn't mean being alone.
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The theme is always the same, though: I'm not having fun in spite of being alone.
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I am okay with being alone, I think it is important for self-understanding and growth.
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There's something delightful about being alone in a space usually occupied by loud noises and messes.
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Because they are lonely, they might not have as much control from being alone so much.
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There are so many platforms to connect with people that being alone is practically a choice.
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In fact, Vassalotti says they're meant for being alone—he might not ever play them live.
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They include prohibiting adults from being alone with minor gymnasts, including sleeping in a hotel room.
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I'd rather be with few friends or with my partner, but I don't mind being alone.
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Mr. Vasquez said long hours don't bother him, and neither does being alone in the truck.
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If familiarity breeds contempt, as these two texts suggest, is being alone really the worst thing?
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He dropped into dark periods of depression, his wife said, tinged with fear of being alone.
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It has unleashed something in me: a quiet joy, that deep down feeling of not being alone.
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The fear of being alone, as it turns out, is more powerful than most of the others.
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According to the article, being alone can benefit your social relationships and improve your creativity and confidence.
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Or you can get your energy by being alone and not be bothered by it at all.
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Being alone is the only time I ever really feel like myself, free from other people's expectations.
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Some of the women could not cope with the alienation of being alone in a strange country.
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Ended up alone by the end of it, but Im realizing I don't mind being alone. #Independent.
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"I fucking hate being alone," says Rachel, with the caveat that I don't use her real name.
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As for being alone, it's important to recognize that "alone" and "lonely" are not the same thing.
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There is a balance that is needed with being alone and having the ability to go out.
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Musk told Strauss that from the time he was a child, he has never liked being alone.
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Luckily, being alone isn't one of them, with chatty Mercury highlighting the relationship sector of your chart.
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Being alone is something that I have become used to, and started to take a liking to.
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Really, I'm surrounded by people all the time, so I've just been trying to appreciate being alone.
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The songs are a series of things I'm super insecure about: Will I end up being alone?
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It prohibits coaches and those in power over athletes from being alone together, except in an emergency.
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People with healthy social biomes, or patterns of social behavior, are comfortable being alone, the study found.
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These included intense fears of being alone, floods of emotional turmoil and impulsive self-harming, like cutting.
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In recent news about Uber and Fox News, women see cautionary tales about being alone with men.
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Although Libras are fairly good at balancing between saving and spending, they tend to dislike being alone.
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Because forming relationships is such a powerful motivator, being in any relationship can seem better than being alone.
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"As an adult, I'm 100% comfortable with being alone and not seeing another person all day," she says.
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Instead, I focused on my relationships in real life, and I also embraced the quiet of being alone.
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There's very little action here, but there's plenty of horror: All things considered, what's scarier than being alone?
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The sequel is shorter and tighter, an equally playful embrace of independence and the joys of being alone.
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" Even so, Lorde insisted that Melodrama isn't a "breakup album," but rather "it's a record about being alone.
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Being alone and conquering a hard trail run makes the world and its problems fall away for me.
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It seems to me the Lavenders are most threatened by someone who is confident and comfortable being alone.
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Being alone — by which I think you mean being single — has the capacity to be deeply, wonderfully satisfying.
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It's another to question the idea that a woman could possibly be fine and dandy with being alone.
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Understand that your loneliness is not failure, and that you are far from being alone in this feeling.
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Understand that your loneliness is not failure and that you are far from being alone in this feeling.
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If I've learned how to deal with being alone this year, I've also learned to value that feeling.
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Otherwise, you might get the crushing sense of being alone in the face of this universe's sheer indifference.
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I can go without sex forever (surprising, yes) but I am terrified of being alone and not being loved.
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It might be an underground sexpaper, a guide to being alone, or an early artist's book by Jean Dubuffet.
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Of course, being alone with women is different than taking a picture with a fan in a public place.
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They also found that people stop themselves from cheating out of moral obligation and the fear of being alone.
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Daniels suggested that USA Gymnastics bar unrelated adults from sharing or being alone in a sleeping room with gymnasts.
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Jonathan later told me that I had seemed approachable that night in Bangkok because I looked comfortable being alone.
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Believe it or not, I do have a complex inner life just like you, and I enjoy being alone.
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To keep his reputation pristine, Graham had a policy of never being alone with any woman other than Ruth.
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On the other hand, being alone forced me to learn to be with — and become good friends with — myself.
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The lyrics are pretty damn emo and the track sounds like the feeling of being alone surrounded by people.
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A study published in the "British Journal of Psychology" showed a correlation between contentedness with being alone and intelligence.
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Photo By Caitlin McLafferty Feeling lonely and being alone are very distinct and different experiences a person can have.
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Some of these new policies include: — Adult members are prohibited from being alone with minor gymnasts at all times.
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The testimonies given by Ms. Dell'Antonia couldn't be more accurate; in fact, they are relatable, I like being alone.
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One man describes being alone and playing Russian roulette, while others talk about constant nightmares and crippling survivor's guilt.
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But she enjoys kicking zombie ass and being alone with Rick too much to call him out on it.
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"I got tired of being alone," McConnell told The Hill of his three-decade quest to turn Kentucky red.
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I'm a fairly introverted, introspective person, and I've never had a problem being alone with my thoughts in silence.
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Hanging out with one or two other people is still riskier than being alone and making your hangout virtual.
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I'm already tired of sad holiday songs about being alone and this song is the antithesis of all that.
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Sometimes being alone served to stifle new ideas for me, and my doubts about my work tended to amplify.
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She accompanied me in the subway before the gig—but being alone inside was really hard for my nerves.
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Robison had reportedly argued to her that the optics of a candidate being alone with a woman was too dangerous.
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The EP includes five songs written by Carmack, but the track "Being Alone" holds a special place in his heart.
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Immediately, our doe-eyed maiden is entranced by Greta's ambiguous accent and sob story about being alone in the world.
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Being alone—even if it's just for an hour—helps me get my mind together and prepare for the day.
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" She adds, "I just hope you realize you're choosing a life of being alone forever; you'll never be loved properly.
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"That put me in the position of being alone on the mountain, in the dark, in a storm," said Richards.
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Being alone and being lonely are two different things, and the latter is arguably more emotionally taxing than the first.
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"Sober since January 10th, this is how you open a beer being alone, bored and robbed," he captioned the post.
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They're affectionate with kids, strangers and other dogs for the most part, and they don't like being alone very much.
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We are nice people, but often quite introverted, and many Norwegians, especially the older generation, like quietness and being alone.
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For now, take a look at what students had to say this week about Facebook, small talk and being alone.
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I always have a romantic partner in my life, and that's probably largely due to my fear of being alone.
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Several women who have worked at the center said they were cautioned against being alone in a room with him.
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"His fear of being alone creates these impulsive, sometimes catastrophic decisions just based solely on that," the actor, 42, explains.
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In the dinner plate of your social life, being alone is like protein and deep, meaningful conversations are like grains.
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Reasons for being sent there include oquq (disobeying parents) and khulwa (being alone with a man in a closed area).
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Nobody thinks that anymore, and the U.S. is pretty much back to being alone at the top of the heap.
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I didn't do Christmas growing up, but still found being alone for it pretty sad, especially 8,465 miles from home.
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There was a timbre to being alone, he had learned, and it was not a quiet one, but the opposite.
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In a way, I feel like being alone reminds me that no one can take this project away from me.
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Dewan, who hosts the NBC reality competition "World of Dance," spoke to Harper's Bazaar about what it's like being alone, too.
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As if all of a sudden they had something in common, as if being alone were enough to link them together!
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Ivy suggests that they call the police, but Ally is worried about their sleeping son Ozzy (Cooper Dodson) being alone upstairs.
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And despite being alone in my living room, it effectively simulated a "real" cycling class, for lack of a better description.
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Workouts are meditative for me, and I actually like being alone with my thoughts, and not having to deal with people.
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"He has a fear of being alone, and given his old age his fear is heightened even more," says the source.
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Introverts get their energy by being alone or in small groups, while extroverts get their energy from larger groups of people.
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"A lot of people have that fear of being alone at home, hearing a noise, and thinking someone's there," Gaztambide says.
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After all, the fact that Comey felt so uncomfortable being alone with President Trump is already evidence that something was wrong.
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They write him saying they don't know what's wrong with them and they're afraid of being alone forever, Katz told me.
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And her 9-year-old son has taken to sleeping in her room at night out of fear of being alone.
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One woman said years after leaving her job in Congress, she still feels anxious about being alone in elevators with men.
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"Some have a hard time being alone if you've been with someone for so long — you want a partner," she says.
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" The same man on "Tired of Being Alone" singing "Sometimes I wonder/ If you love me like you say you do.
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It was written and recorded Melbourne, where Hoyt went on two occasions to find inspiration by being alone in new surroundings.
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Being alone in an adults' playground was a strange experience, but it made me see it from an entirely different perspective.
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Now thinking about it, yes, I have been able to balance my social life between being alone and socializing with others.
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He had insisted on being alone in the room with her, but most of her patients died surrounded by loved ones.
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Many young children have difficulty being alone and are dealing with a smorgasbord of worries, from strangers to dogs to thunder.
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Sometimes being alone in its worlds was freeing, but other times, most of the time, I felt almost crushed by it.
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When you're with someone who doesn't care about your views, and has no desire to understand you, it's worse than being alone.
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Cáceres had expressed fear of being alone because of a recent intensification of the death threats she had been receiving for years.
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I barely use the remaining apps except for when I'm traveling, or in those darker moments of fear of being alone forever.
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"Imagine waking up without that heavy ache in your chest that comes from being alone," Hussey says in the course's introduction video.
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Nightflyer is about a crew aboard a spaceship who slowly begin to succumb to the horrors of being alone in outer space.
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Or you might settle for a date with someone who lacks long-term potential, just to alleviate your anxiety about being alone.
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If any readers outside the UK were unaware that we are even having one, fear not: you are far from being alone.
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These days, being alone with myself is one of my favourite things, maybe even more so because it didn't used to be.
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But being alone eventually becomes a cage from which you watch the rest of the world with only your pain for company.
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You're terrified of being alone, because then you have to actually figure out who you are and whether you like that person.
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Puzzled, as a person who has been single an awful lot, I can tell you right now: being alone is pretty great.
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But had a misalignment of fears: I am petrified of being alone and she was anxious about being with the wrong person.
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That might take a little bit of the edge off rather than being alone and driving yourself crazy with a horror game.
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But being alone can also be a sign that something has already gone wrong — that a disaster has occurred, or a mistake.
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" Working with Mr. Mitchell at Hi Records, they played on the Al Green hits "Tired of Being Alone" and "Let's Stay Together.
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So when the Jessicas tried to rip me to shreds and got our classmates to ignore me, being alone wasn't so bad.
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For as long as people have lived together, we have been afraid—of being forgotten, of being alone, of cancer, of death.
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"Being alone puts you in a circumstance where you're not only questioning yourself, but also looking for agreement in others," she said.
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Lindsey: I'm sure to many people with kids or other family members to take care of, being alone sounds like a dream.
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"To see all these little kids who would be together in one place having fun, being alone and trying to maintain normalcy."
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It prevents someone from being alone when they are in a dark place and offers them an outlet to release their emotions.
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They are guided by the fear of being alone, according to Lynn Saladino, a clinical psychologist in Manhattan who focuses on relationships.
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If my friends are running late I may occasionally get bored, but there's also something nice about being alone with my thoughts.
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After he left, I tried desperately to resist being alone again, turning to other men to try and be forgotten in their fantasy.
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This saga has spurred complex, and sometimes conflicting, reactions: Relief in not being alone — but horror in how many women had similar experiences.
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Being alone with a male supervisor anywhere is never "asking for it," and it's bizarre we often ask women that kind of question.
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Sir Don still does long, therapeutic stints in his dark room in Somerset, which he likens to being "alone in your mother's womb".
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Ever since 2010, internet hero Bridget has been creating hilarious Christmas cards that celebrate the eternal nightmare of being alone during the holidays.
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To that same point, if you're someone who enjoys being alone, you don't have to go out and be social, and vice versa.
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Friston had described how he enjoyed electronics design and being alone in nature, so the computer suggested he become a television antenna installer.
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His eye for composition delivered a symmetrical glimpse into the rural South though his aptly titled series There's Worse Things Than Being Alone.
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They especially can't understand a person so OK with being alone that he/she does not need numbers to get to a final.
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Even though it goes against how we're wired as a species, it feels like it's become pitiful to admit to disliking being alone.
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Lakshman felt strange being alone at home with his mother, sitting at the kitchen table, doing his homework, while his mother drank upstairs.
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One of the hardest problems: being alone But new monitoring technology can go beyond tracking physical developments — it can also ward off loneliness.
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We can't do everything alone, although being alone and having time and space to hear your own thoughts is crucial to your wellbeing.
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Now I'm only afraid of being alone, of being separated from my husband and my son, of being only a body by myself.
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"The lengths that women have to go to protect themselves from being alone in public spaces," she wrote, are restrictive, exhausting and terrifying.
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Being comfortable being alone is really hard—especially in these circumstances—but it's also a skill you can cultivate (even in these circumstances).
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The rules prohibit contraband, forbid staff members from being alone with detainees and encourage the youths to report abuse, according to the agency.
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There's a difference between being alone and being lonely, and part of this time might be an unexpected opportunity to cultivate some spaciousness.
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I was nervous about being alone on a train for so long (without WiFi!), but I discovered that my worrying was for nothing.
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Guyger said that being alone in the apartment with Jean after shooting him was "the scariest thing" that had ever happened to her.
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Org survey, 60% of male managers now express concern about mentoring, socializing or being alone with their women employees, up substantially from last year.
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Developed by The Workers production studio, the After Dark robots are meant to recreate the feeling of being alone in the museum at night.
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Similar to how loneliness describes being alone and wanting company, "aloneliness" can be used to describe the natural desire for solitude, Dr. Coplan said.
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She's left to deal with the brutal loss of being alone in the place where she retreats when she wants to feel less lonely.
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Plus, if you're an introvert — or are just prone to long, fruitful periods of silent contemplation — being alone is an ideal way to recharge.
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" (Can you tell that something's a little off already?) "Småland now comes with pods that let each child enjoy being alone with a tablet.
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Much like reading a crisp hardcover book in a toasty room, Ohio's Secret Space is a band that makes being alone an enjoyable act.
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I realized that I didn't fear being alone as much as I feared what others would think of me if they saw me alone.
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Following her split from Jack Antonoff, Lena Dunham has come face-to-face with the reality of being alone — a state she once loved.
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Nearly 30% of drivers surveyed said that being alone all day and away from their family was a "significant issue" affecting their mental health.
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Most of us have a huge fear of being alone, so we compromise and tell ourselves "I can live with that," until we can't.
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There is a lot of uncertainty and a lot of physical isolation, and being alone with your thoughts may be more distressing than ever.
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He argues that many times we look at phones because we are anxious and bad at being alone — and that's not the phone's fault.
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"In most of her songs she talks about being alone and afraid," said Alisa Gordon, 18, a college student and aspiring actress in Nashville.
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Love addiction is a desperate need to find someone to love that&aposs fueled by the irrational fear of being alone or being rejected.
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I was watching an interview with Zadie Smith, and she talked about a comfort with being alone as a necessary attribute for a writer.
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But as you describe of your experience in Red Redemption you've also found quiet moments of exploration being alone and not necessarily fiercely competing.
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I don't smoke, but I have taken smoke breaks with women to avoid them being alone with some of the guys we work with.
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Being alone was a guilty pleasure, a moment to replenish myself because I had so many little people asking questions, touching me, wanting too much.
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I got good at being alone because several of my friends stopped talking to me after I came out as bisexual, and the rest followed.
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At the age of 47, Jeff Gebhart says he's content being alone but is still looking for a special someone to share his life with.
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The best advice is to teach the dog how to "stay" for long periods of time, to teach the dog to be comfortable being alone.
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And it was in that moment that I realized that being alone wasn't just something I could tolerate; it could actually be kind of nice.
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Fear of being misunderstood is now secondary to fear of being alone in your passions—something cautious veterans seem not to grasp the value of.
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His decision comes from a belief that his marriage remains strong because there is never temptation of being alone with someone of the opposite sex.
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She takes a cigarette into an empty bar, asks for a seltzer and the sports section, and tries her best to contend with being alone.
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But, since turning 23, I realized my anxiety around being alone works against me, and like any other toxic behavior, it needs to be shed.
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The debate came in part because the FBI was concerned about being alone in shouldering the responsibility of briefing the incoming President about the allegations.
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To live year-round in a place like this you must be very good at being with others and then very good at being alone.
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The two of them figured it out and when I got home, Nick's confidence about being alone with Charlie was nearly as high as mine.
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I had been through breakups before and was fairly comfortable being alone, but the abrupt ending of this relationship felt destabilizing in a new way.
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She said that after she was raped, she continued to work for Mr. Horovitz and went to extreme lengths to avoid being alone with him.
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We eat a lot of cheese and drink a lot of red wine and have sex and I believe this is better than being alone.
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I don't mind alone time at all, but being alone in their house for more than a couple of days starts to feel pretty lonely.
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Smarter Living: As you head into the new year, remember to take more time for yourself — being alone can improve your creativity and your relationships.
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It's a truism that living around so many others can make you feel paradoxically lonely, yet there are entirely novel ways of being alone, together.
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Patience and comfort with being alone is also key, since you might hit unexpected weather or traffic delays that could add hours to your trip.
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Will there still be that former trick-or-treater who would have snatched the whole bowl of candy despite being alone and giving his name?
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But some experts believe just being alone can pose a problem—a study of adolescent rats showed that social isolation could be damaging to young brains.
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Within each, my mind — too tired to squash negative thoughts — spotted similarities to the deeper anxieties I have about failure, being alone, or even simply existing.
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When the host asked if he was ever worried about Kardashian West being alone in the presence of the president, the rapper gave a simple answer.
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But I eventually grew comfortable being alone on a Friday night, or showing up solo to a party where I might have brought a date before.
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This is a way for him of dealing with the boredom and the isolation of being alone in the White House by himself in the evenings.
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They feel Chester's biggest downfall was being alone, especially in his final moments ... so they want to stress the importance of surrounding yourself with loved ones.
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Once I got out of the SHU, it was hard for me to readjust to interacting with people because I was so used to being alone.
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They also hate Natalie, Paulie, my horse (I don't get it either), and generally anyone who is remotely different from them or generally comfortable being alone.
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First was Wells, who arrived just in time to save Ashley from the humiliation of being alone, and to save everyone else in Paradise from Ashley.
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Blonde is an album about aging, about bad-fit desire and being alone, about coming to know yourself and your past while wondering about the future.
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"There is no such thing as truly being alone, which is what I hope this moment demonstrates, that there is strength in numbers," Rapp told Attitude.
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The researchers from Durham University measured the participants' personalities, and found that introverts were more likely to find doing nothing and being alone to be restful.
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The hundreds of available and nearly identical homebody-themed graphic T-shirts exist because they're perfect for Instagram, she points out, making being alone still shareable.
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Ms. Fuentes said that her gym told her that it didn't have written policies on background checks for staff or on staff being alone with athletes.
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Along with Kim Senko, the technical director, the women created a "buddy system" to avoid being alone with Mr. Horovitz, who they say harassed them repeatedly.
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That led to female inmates often being alone, or in small groups, with male officers during the jail's quietest hours, according to court records and interviews.
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" In a recent essay, Mr. Zhang lauded the American president as being alone among national leaders daring "to openly promote the political ideas of Chairman Mao.
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It's important to show that there's a confidence in both of those, the fantasy and the reality — that being alone with myself is content and happy.
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Not only are there programs for babies themselves, but parents can mingle with one another and escape the isolation of being alone all day with an infant.
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There is a deep, warm solitude running through all of Eleanor Ray's paintings — a sense of being alone and luxuriating in the human silence and changing light.
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I also believe that turning meditation into a game helps people avoid being alone with the dark and traumatic thoughts that can come up for some meditators.
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I think that's what soaks so deeply into singlehood and makes it hard to live with — the notion that you, being alone, are missing something really important.
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Mr Berninger croons, "I'm not afraid of being alone/ I just don't know what to do with my time" with a familiar mix of ennui and angst.
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Toni warns him that being alone makes him vulnerable, but he's too busy trying to sweet-talk a teacher into letting him join the defunct Southside newspaper.
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"I'm a loner, and sometimes being with my man is better than being alone, and sometimes I can be alone while sitting next to him," she says.
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Connie genuinely loves his brother, but it's a toxic kind of love, the kind where you'd readily drag someone down with you rather than risk being alone.
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Since I was always convinced that being with a terrible guy was better than being alone, I'd explain away bad behavior in order to make myself comfortable.
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She writes that she often felt like she "wasn't cut out for heterosexuality," but really she couldn't find anyone she liked more than she liked being alone.
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Sometimes I can get overwhelmed with school or other stress, and being alone gives me an opportunity to manage that stress or channel it into something productive.
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Meanwhile, in Palm Beach ... Although he repeatedly lamented being alone, Trump was insistent that his family remained in Palm Beach without him while he eschewed his vacation.
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Instead, Sansa wants to send Brienne to represent the interests of House Stark, which also suggests she can't be all that worried about being alone with Arya.
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It was nothing but it did not contain Marcos and I felt the relief of being alone, the safety of doors and the paradoxical freedom of confinement.
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In the past I have had trouble being alone with myself after a break up, and getting up early for writing time would have been too hard.
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Fearful, guarded, dogged by self-doubt, Porto is intensely weary of being alone but certain she is doomed by her appearance never to get the hot guy.
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The impact of wind on the Olympics, the experience of being alone in the Louvre, and the polydactyl cat who toed a world record are also featured.
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"We're in this moment where just being alone and by yourself and having your own thoughts that maybe you don't share is almost frowned upon," he said.
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Being alone on a cold alien landscape may seem like a sad way to pass six years, but for the Mars Curiosity rover, it's been a brilliant stretch.
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There is a deep, warm solitude running through all the paintings in the exhibition – a sense of being alone and luxuriating in the human silence and changing light.
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After the end of my first marriage, I was on my own in so many new ways, but being alone felt most visceral when it came to money.
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Another psychotherapeutic technique known as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can help teach patients how to better tolerate the feeling of being alone without logging on to Grindr.
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All of these factors, or just the stress and sadness of being alone, could drive up blood pressure and inflammation, which in turn could lead to heart disease.
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He said he had no memory of ever being alone with the actor, who had been cast as the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis's characters.
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The inherent melancholy of the avian virtuoso is matched only by mankind's own existential dread at the thought of being alone with our thoughts for just five minutes.
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People stay too long in bad relationships because of the fear to be alone, not realizing that being in a bad relationship is the same as being alone.
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The same nightmarish rules designed to ruin your trip apply to pretty much all space movies: if there's a crew on board, you'll somehow end up being alone.
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You wouldn't think it's the best night to meet someone new—all that pressure—but I think for some, being alone is worse than an awkward night out.
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"This is having your son sleep with you at night because he is afraid of something happening and being alone, and by something I mean dying," she continued.
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Campo Santo really nailed the whole idea of isolation, of being alone with your thoughts, guessing what would happen next—and that was exactly what I did throughout.
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And, finally, the "Pence Rule" — a man not being alone with women other than his wife — is a fearful, selfish response by men to the issue of harassment.
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The important thing — something he could do — is to understand my discomfort with being alone with the president, and the importance of staying between me and the president.
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Bariedah, who now lives in Germany, described to Insider the conditions in which she and others lived, where she said being alone was often the most painful deprivation.
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Company is about Robert, a stubborn bachelor who isn't looking to settle down until he comes to the conclusion that being alone is really no way to live.
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Someone dear to me got divorced and had to spend a lot of time away from his family and a lot of time being alone in his home.
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This will allow you to forget about being alone on the holidays and instead be involved in the much happier world of Mordor or, like, Far Cry or something.
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During the new moon in Aquarius, you're going to feel like sleeping in and being alone, as it takes place in a quiet and isolated sector of your chart.
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Matt's up next, and along with his tunes about being alone, a high school crush whom he recently failed to court, and drinking, he's got a brand-new one.
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"I like to jerk off, and I don't like being alone," he reportedly told the crowd during a performance in San Jose Wednesday night, according to The Daily Beast.
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Turns out being alone in a room facing an unknown opponent is more thought-provokingly scary than sitting next to a warm body you're playing a friendly game with.
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He isn't engaged with social issues, or the world in general — he's an internal character in existential crisis, dealing with his fears of being alone, and his own mortality.
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In the spirit of this past week—of Valentine's Day and love and not being alone—we looked up our school crushes to see if we still fancied them.
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His free Soundcloud album Being Alone Isn't Bad is an oddball release that sounds like a grungy 808s & Heartbreak and is even less interested in rap than Kanye's original.
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If I'd been in a group, I might have checked out one of the steak, taco or shrimp places, but being alone made me curious to explore further afield.
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This is all in an effort to keep people inside and practicing social distancing, but being alone inside doesn't mean you and your friends can't watch a movie together.
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"You also can build in structure into your week so you identify those times when you feel particularly bad about being alone and again have a plan," he said.
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"Going from having those 5-6 people that you're with all day every day to now being alone in your childhood bedroom is now a different jump," Simmons said.
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It&aposs a desperate need to find someone to love that&aposs fueled by the irrational fear of being alone or being rejected, according to The Ranch Treatment Centers.
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But if you've ever been through these kinds of situations, you never ever, ever forget how difficult these things are and the misery and the being alone and failing.
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But just as important is being alone, having a unique encounter — not seamlessly recommended or autoplayed — with something that another person created, and then gauging your deepest emotional response.
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The top letter, in which Cohen wrote in December 21992 about being "alone with the vast dictionaries of language," fetched $56,250 compared to an original high estimate of $10,000.
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We always had people in the house, and so I think because of that, I became really like, not isolated in like depression, but I just liked being alone.
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If you're one of those people who has simply succumbed to the idea of being alone because "real love isn't out there," listen up: Match wants to change your mind.
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I started noticing that, throughout the book, there were little mentions of how French women don't mind being alone sometimes, be it on park benches, at cafés, in bars, wherever.
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"This is going to be a challenging experience that intensifies the sensation of being alone in deep space — something that characterizes Aniara," Goteborg Film Festival director Jonas Holmberg tells PEOPLE.
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But he's far from being alone among governors who have left office either because they were convicted in impeachment proceedings or forced to resign as salacious scandals swirled around them.
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Skeptics may argue that fewer potential matches and dates means fewer chances of finding a romantic partner, but Sullivan said that supposition typically stems from a fear of being alone.
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BARBARO: Do you think that Attorney General Sessions absorbed your discomfort with being alone with the president and acted on it in such a way that it might not recur?
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In lines that tumble out so quickly they sometimes overlap, she calls out her own self-deceptions and fears of being alone as well as her ex's lies and obliviousness.
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Being alone in the desert isn't easy (and often fasting and intense periods of prayer were involved), but it would result in a "purgative" stage in the monk's Christian journey.
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How audiences read her is a Rorschach test of sorts for how they think about single women and their capacity for happiness in a society that rarely celebrates being alone.
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In the film, she breaks down after a performance and holds her husband and says that she was there, back in the space and time of being alone, unloved, despised.
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Alternatively, a man who has hopped from long-term relationship to long-term relationship throughout his 15-year sexual career might decide he wants to give being alone a try.
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Interestingly, religious participants were more likely to cite morality and concern for other people as reasons for staying faithful; secular participants were more likely to cite the fear of being alone.
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For some people, especially those coping with anxiety and depression, being alone with your thoughts isn't always pleasant, so exploring therapy or yoga and meditation practices could help manage those fears.
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Dr. Mukund Komanduri, 50, an orthopedic surgeon with a practice outside Chicago, said he avoids being alone with female colleagues, particularly those he does not know well or who are subordinates.
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Once you've done the sex, you may find that you need some aftercare—things like cuddling, talking, letting each other know how you're feeling, or even being alone for a bit.
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And, by the way, who ever thought it was a good idea to leave another very vulnerable being alone with Rachel, whose self-hatred has a way of turning explosively outward?
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That a person who expressed no interest in people could live with such a yearning for them; that a paramount fear of being alone could drive him away from the world.
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It's a lovely thing, enjoying being alone and feeling confident in your own self sufficiency, and I don't regret the effort that I put into getting to where I am now.
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I am running the Walt Disney Co." -- Iger on why he wakes up super early and stays away from screens in the AM: "I like being alone with my own thoughts.
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No, you want to prove to yourself and to the world that you can go it alone and still compete against the overwhelming odds that being alone inherently stacks against you.
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"Being alone, or feeling like you are alone, probably increases the risk of many diseases by about 30%," said Julianne Holt-Lunstad, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University.
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The seed of hatred for this holiday was planted on that day, and after years of being alone on the big V, bloomed into full-grown loathing my sophomore year of college.
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But really truly experiencing it, standing next to others who you relate to on such a profoundly personal level, you begin to have a new understanding of what not being alone means.
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There's something about being alone in the middle of the Mojave desert, surrounded by Joshua trees and rocks that made me feel more connected to the Earth than I ever have before.
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From that moment on in brief: George's new coach didn't like him, his family life became messy, he started "being alone, feeling sad and creating vibes" AKA finding his feet in music.
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Sasha Cagen, the author of Quirkyalone, a guide for non-hermits who nonetheless enjoy being alone, told me there are dangers associated with living alone, but that in a way, they're irrelevant.
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"The point of being alone isn't to retreat from the rest of the world, it's to figure out who you are and where you wanna go in your life," Klinenberg told me.
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Mr. Junger's book, so alive to the post-tribal poverties of being alone, is less aware of the poverties of being together that have sent so many in pursuit of relative solitude.
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Over the next few years, movies may lose altogether the aspect of public solitude, of being alone together in a crowd, in the dark, marvelling as spectacle devolves upon the human face.
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I left profanity-laced messages on my therapist's voice mail, wailing about how much I hated being alone, how afraid I was that I didn't know how to love or be loved.
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Her idea of what it meant to be an artist was changing: It was no longer being alone, making large paintings in a studio; it could be something more improvisatory and intimate.
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Fans already know that the marriage doesn't last, and Justin Hartley tells PEOPLE that his character's "fear of being alone" will continue to drive his ongoing state of being a hopeless romantic.
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The 24-year-old had been living in a basement apartment in New Rochelle, New York, for some time but had recently grown anxious and even felt paranoid of being alone there.
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It is a book about insomnia as much as it is about art, and it is a book about being alone as much as it is about relationships with family and community.
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But when the Limping Man asks David what's worse, a little pain in the moment or being alone and cast out of society forever, David has to admit he has a point.
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I love being alone, having space, being the sole input to the Spotify algorithm, etc.. But my abundance of solitude means that on occasion, I view time with other people as a treat.
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Granted, even if you did have a tub big enough, and enough salt at your disposal, you'd still miss out on the whole being-alone-in-a-pitch-dark-pod element of flotation.
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SO GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY WHICH HE CERTAINLY HAD W ME & OTHERS, BEING ALONE, W NO PARENTS AROUND, HOW DID HE CONTROL THOSE URGES SO WELL, WHILE SO BLATANTLY SEXUAL W THOSE 2100 BOYS?
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At Steve Allen, he plays very nice, making jokes about failed relationships and sings about the sarcastic benefits of being alone (you can watch the real Lenny Bruce's rendition of "All Alone" here).
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That same feeling is going to have to carry me through my fears now when I think about them going off on their own, fending for themselves, being alone for the first time.
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To that effect, I Feel Love's ticketing website states that participants "should be comfortable standing, walking, climbing stairs, being touched, interacting with participants, or being alone," conveying that there might also be nudity.
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If he was content with still pining for Rosita or if there was another person, or if he was just kind of cool with being alone, he might not have pushed as hard.
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That feeling – of being alone, but starring in your own film, and therefore not sad and alone but alone with comforting purpose – is something you can usually get from listening to ambient music.
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I imagined that being alone, it would not be difficult for a group of organized assailants to grab me and stuff me in the back of van to never be heard from again.
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"People still chose to go there instead of being alone at home or work," wrote Ms. Pozos, who was a student at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa., at the time of her thesis.
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Among its tips: Being alone with a student behind closed doors and favoring one student over others were "red flags," and "planning or discussing a future romantic relationship with a student" was absolutely prohibited.
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My instinct lately is to surround myself with people and distractions as much as possible but I also really want to give myself time and permission to get reacquainted with just being alone too.
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Although there were initially many obstacles, including my age and being alone in this project, this is something I am deeply passionate about and truly believe is a pressing issue in our society today.
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When I look at Seth Cohen, I see someone who's comfortable being alone — because he knows how to deal with sadness and anxiety — but also wants to use humor to make friends and connections.
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That's going to be harder to do now that Uber has given one of its board seats to a regime that once punished a rape victim for being alone with a male non-relative.
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The contemporary setting also made the proceedings less spooky, what with cellphones and other modern devices that alter the dynamics of, say, being alone in the basement with a murderer dressed like his mom.
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Finland imports up to a fifth of its electricity consumption at times of peak winter demand, and being alone could create uncertainty for its security of power supply, crucial for its energy-hungry industrial sector.
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Kimmel asked if West was ever nervous about wife Kim Kardashian West and Trump being alone in the Oval Office, referencing Kardashian's successful lobbying of the White House to grant clemency for Alice Marie Johnson.
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But never forget that Hannah is her own worst enemy, wedded deeply to the idea that being alone indicates some sort of irreversible damage, an unlovability that is less choice and more the last resort.
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While some former officials have warned that being alone with Putin is ill-advised — given the former KGB officer's presumed skill at duping his adversaries — at least one former U.S. president would applaud the move.
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A kind of mashup of Black Friday and Valentine's Day where people shop to celebrate being alone rather than in relationships, Singles Day is a 24-hour shopping frenzy, held each year on Nov. 11.
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A kind of mashup of Black Friday and Valentine's Day where people shop to celebrate being alone rather than in relationships, Singles Day is a 23-hour shopping frenzy, held each year on Nov. 250.
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People can stay in unhappy relationships for many reasons: fear of being alone, the sense that you can't do better, or reluctance to drop a partner with whom you've spent so much time and attention.
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I'm actually feeling pretty good about working from home since being alone and indoors is my preferred environment, but I give it about two days until I come down with another case of the scrubbies.
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Thoreau wrote that in most men, the desire for society is stronger than the desire for being alone in nature, and he sought balance between man's need to be outdoors and his need for society.
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A reader wrote to Carolyn in 2014 about dating again after their husband's suicide, which they had recently started in part to placate an 8-year-old son who was worried about them being alone.
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"I enjoy so much being alone, and if I'm ever lonely I go into a city where I can go to dog parks or talk to people on Instagram and meet up at their vans."
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Todd Fisher says his mother couldn't bear the thought of his sister being alone that she "willed herself" to die a day after the "Star Wars" actress passed away, according to excerpts released by USA Today .
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But once he's done recapping select parts of his day, it's over and out, and I'm not going to force a thriving, happy kid to keep his mom company because she's fed up with being alone.
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"I was tired of being there for everyone and taking care of everyone and just wanted to be there for myself and be okay with being alone," Lohan, 32, added of regaining control in her life.
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Look at the classics of the (survival) horror genre for inspiration—Silent Hill 2, Dead Space, P.T., and the first Resident Evil—all of them thrive on this fear of being alone in a terrifying place.
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They defined loneliness as a feeling of inadequate social connection and they differentiated loneliness from social isolation—that is, just like every after-school special hammered into you, being lonely isn't the same as being alone.
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PETER RICHMOND MILLERTON, N.Y. * On Broadway To the Editor: Ada Calhoun's review of Olivia Laing's "The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone" (March 20) brought back my teenage encounter with New York City.
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Is the thinking that, unlike single people, people in relationships are less equipped to deal with the discomfort of being alone at social events, or are less deserving of the punishment that is making small talk?
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Yesterday, a sixth woman, speaking with Axios, said Pishevar misled her into being alone with him in an elevator in December 2011 after a charity event; there, says the entrepreneur, Laura Fitton, he aggressively kissed her.
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In all the reporting about Mueller's interest in interviewing Trump, there's an unease among the sources, all of whom are almost certainly lawyers, in the very thought of Trump being alone in a room with Mueller.
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"I think the biggest thing that is underestimated is the psychological impact of being alone," said David Hassell co-founder and CEO of 15Five, a performance management software provider, where 40% of the workers are remote.
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The stars of Quentin Tarantino's new movie, "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood," talked to our film critic at the Cannes Film Festival about what it's like being alone in Hollywood and working with the director.
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As the social neurologist John Cacioppo and his team at the University of Chicago discovered, the feeling of loneliness — the subjective experience itself, not the bare fact of being alone — brings about hypervigilance to social threat.
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But apart from the four states that are granted the privileged position at the very front of the calendar, influence in the primaries has usually come not from being early; it has come from being alone.
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We have two young children ourselves and are hyperaware of the very real, physical, day-to-day implications of being alone with a baby and what this development will mean for Jane's personal and professional life.
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But after spending a good deal of my 20s alone, I came to realize that my reluctance to step through doorways first stemmed from a bigger fear I used to have: being alone in a crowded room.
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" Saying that she was "obsessed with being alone," Cyrus explained at the time, "I want to be really clear and determined with everything I'm doing in my life right now … I am genuinely happy, finally with myself.
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One reason is that you settled, either through fear of being alone or because you thought you wanted to be with someone and jumped into that relationship too quickly, and later realized you don't have that connection.
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To be clear, the paper's authors do not appear to be making any definitive claim about whether or not aliens exist; simply, our current knowledge across the seven parameters suggests a high likelihood of us being alone.
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Or maybe it had something to do with coming full circle, of making a vow just as our marriage was beginning and finally seeing it through just as we were on the verge of being alone again.
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Being alone, I was paired with three people I didn't know, which was weird at first — none of us really wanted to play footsie — but you lose your self-consciousness in a hurry on that first dip.
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But the harassment was enough that she developed a strategy of never being alone with her male colleague — never "to be near him" or "to be in an elevator with him," she told reporters in the Capitol.
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They have also included requirements that those on the registry refrain from being alone with children (often including their own) and barred from holding certain jobs, like being a volunteer firefighter or driving an ice cream truck.
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At Noah's request, Helen details what the divorce was like for her: constant crying; insomnia; fear of being alone with their kids if something bad happened; a humiliating sense that compared to Alison, she was old and ugly.
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Looking farther down the line, the Times reported that other men worried about mentoring women due to high-profile firings for misconduct, and adhering to "the Pence rule" of not being alone with women who aren't his wife.
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I'm a widow now, and I don't think I'm going to end up in a cardboard box eating dog food out of a can, but I think many women are terrified of being alone, particularly as they age.
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Being alone in these gorgeous buildings, standing in their upper rooms and watching the ships go by in the near distance, hearing the waters churning, and smelling the spaces' evocative aromas, makes me glad that I am here.
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You describe Dear Love as a series about "the desire to fight for deeper connections," but the images (thus far released) detail the process of letting go, and much of your work focuses on the theme of being alone.
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"I would rather use this time to go home and be with my parents instead of being alone in DC, quarantined in my apartment," said Shumaisa, a consultant in Washington, DC, who withheld her last name for privacy reasons.
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The fulfillment I felt being part of a community was so real, gave me so much strength to deal with my own personal challenges, that it's always been ingrained in me that being together is better than being alone.
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And while the thought of being alone until I die is enough to make me break out in a cold sweat, it's time for me to realize that a life without a man does not equal a life without love.
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In her new memoir, This Will Only Hurt a Little, the mother of two describes over several chapters being alone in eighth grade with a boy three years her senior, struggling to understand what happened and accepting how it's affected her.
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Mark Gill, the former president of Miramax Los Angeles, told the New York Times, "If a female executive was asked to go to a meeting solo, she and a colleague would generally double up" to avoid being alone with Weinstein.
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But every time your brain predicts doom and gloom, repeating something like, "Being alone is better than being in a bad relationship," or, "I've been through way harder things than being single on Valentine's Day," might make you feel better.
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"That horrible sensation of crippling fear, of shame and embarrassment at my own weakness, of being alone, frightened and friendless, has never left me," Heggie writes in his new memoir Prizefighter: The Searing Autobiography of Britain's Bare Knuckle Boxing Champion.
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The flâneur is the subject of a new book—Lauren Elkin's Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London—and is invoked in Olivia Laing's The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone.
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Despite her divorce, despite numerous flings and failed romances, despite her self-awareness, she finds it difficult to reconcile herself to being alone, with her female friends, and difficult to see mother and daughter as the great loves of her life.
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But being alone now in this small Southern capital, where he'd brought us and where we knew no one, subjected us, she felt, to every sort of pitfall and danger that could ruin us and ruin our chances for restoring life.
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The lawsuit states that Torres "holds the strong and sincere religious belief that the Holy Bible prohibits him, as a married man, from being alone for extended periods with a female who is not his wife," The Charlotte Observer reported.
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Me not wanting her to lose me is largely an extension of my own ego, and my not wanting to lose her is a fear of being alone, but nonetheless those are circumstances which I spend far too much time pondering.
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C.K., according to the Daily Beast, began his show by saying, "I like to jerk off, and I don't like being alone," The comedian admitted last year that accusations of sexual misconduct leveled against him by five women were true.
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It's actually the title of Rina's favourite book by Sherry Turkle, and served as lyrical inspiration for last year's EP. "It just felt right," she says, reiterating that she wanted to show that being alone doesn't always mean being lonely.
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Chaffetz, he won't allow staffers to stay very late or show up very early, and Huelskamp said he likes to make sure that he's surrounded by several people so that he can't wind up being alone with any one staffer.
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That is not exactly what happened to me, but there were times when either my mom or my dad — the same thing was true for both — in which being alone with them, I realized, was like, 'This is a special time.
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"It is like being alone in a dark room with a treasure chest full of rubies and nuggets and brocades," Sackville-West marveled in a letter to Woolf after reading the novel; this version lacks that sense of giddy extravagance.
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You could easily claim that the film confines its ridicule to the Tinderized—to those who are offered such elaborate assistance in the speed and the precision of their wooing that they are left with no excuse for being alone.
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Some mental health experts have even said it's possible Goldberg has a love addiction, or a desperate need to find someone to love that's fueled by the irrational fear of being alone or being rejected, according to The Ranch Treatment Centers.
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People are in the mood to say no, and to argue, and with Venus in Virgo, a sign ruled by the Hermit card in the tarot, you have no interest in inserting yourself in any problems, and you will much prefer being alone.
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Over the years, I've also become very familiar with some of the problem areas of this particular lifestyle, from managing time zone differences to unexpectedly not having reliable wi-fi or power to just being alone and on the road a lot.
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People with borderline personality disorder are terrified of abandonment, but for some, that might mean feeling anxious when their partners don't respond to texts right away; for others, that might mean choosing to stay in volatile, dysfunctional relationships rather than being alone.
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The elderly and kids are really the guinea pigs for voice computing and personified AI. Elderly people have the issue often of being alone a lot, so they are the ones that might be more likely to turn to chitchat with Alexa.
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During the wide-ranging interview, West spoke about his porn preferences, his bipolar diagnosis and his love of Trump, even calling the president a "player" after Kimmel asked if he was ever worried about Kardashian being alone in the presence of the Trump.
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While taking caution, given that this research has not yet been peer-reviewed, and remembering that further investigations could offer a different perspective, the current results suggest we need to rethink our assumptions about introverts and extraverts and how they experience being alone.
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A story about isolation and being alone was perfect for a setting like that, and because the studio is small and new, a focus on a tiny cast of real characters was much more practical than inventing a whole new fictional universe.
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The game includes features that make it a clear descendant of the games its creators are best-known for; there are the robotic companions akin to Mega Man, and the sense of being alone on an alien world that's so central Metroid Prime.
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AUGUSTA, Me. — She was afraid of being alone and prone to anxiety, a diminutive 253-year-old woman with a poor sense of direction, hiking the Appalachian Trail by herself, who wandered into terrain so wild, it is used for military training.
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While I surely do agree that in love a secret and a lie are the same thing, I hope it will interest him to be told that the secret of not being alone is to let yourself keep falling—for the same one.
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And when our Vice President, and other influencers, have decided that being alone in the same room (virtual or otherwise) with women opens them up to too much vulnerability, they make it that much harder for women to achieve the same influence.
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I didn't feel comfortable eating at hotel buffets or sitting at a bar alone — but being alone made me seek out off-the-wall activities, the kind of undiscovered things I might not find if I was part of a regular tourist couple.
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From her opening line of "Why men great 'til they gotta be great?" to her often appropriated "I just took a DNA test, turns out I'm 100% that b****," the song will make you recognize that being alone doesn't mean being lonely.
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While it is possible to simply fly to a few places — Arusha, Tanzania, or Maun, Botswana — and rent a car to take off into the countryside, few people want to risk being alone on unmarked dirt roads patrolled by hyenas, cheetahs and lions.
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"He's tired of being alone, and is looking for an heir and a partner and a friend, and he's exhilarated by showing off his wares," said Christian Borle, the two-time Tony Award winning actor brought in to play the role on Broadway.
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Some politicians set gender-neutral rules that have a side effect of keeping them from being alone with women — such as excluding any staff from the office before 7 am or after 7 pm — but others clearly apply special rules to women.
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Over simple, bright, hooky jangle-rock, coated in the crispest of pop surfaces, she cheerfully sings about mortality, drug addiction, the bleaching of pleasure from things she used to enjoy, the tension between being alone and being lonely, the endless search for love.
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But in the same way word got around Hollywood about Weinstein way before he was outed, leaving some actresses with warnings about being alone with the producer, stories about Kelly's intentions for showing up unannounced to his high school floated among our ranks, too.
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Prince spoke about his troubled childhood, how he grew up so poor he didn't have money to buy food at McDonald's so he sniffed the air smelling of French fries, and how in many ways he so feared being alone that he isolated himself first.
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Our aversion to being alone can be quite drastic: A quarter of the women and two-thirds of the men in a University of Virginia study chose to subject themselves to an electric shock rather than do nothing and spend time alone with their thoughts.
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The study, published in the Journal of Personality, found that not only do people long for their exes more if they're scared of being alone, but also that they're more likely to try to rekindle the relationship on days when the fear feels particularly overwhelming.
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Bill Waller Jr., the former chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, told Mississippi Today that he subscribes to what is known as the "Billy Graham rule," named after the prominent evangelist, in which a man avoids being alone with women other than his wife.
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What was particularly wonderful about my time with The Witness was that, despite being alone on the island for countless hours, I felt constantly locked in conversation—with the world around me, with the puzzles that threatened to melt my brain, with its creators.
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Remembering my struggles with abstinence and being alone with that, I determined to talk honestly about the sexual frustration of my 20s, how I overcame the initial guilt of disobedience, and how I made my way through that guilt to a positive attitude toward sex.
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He's single for the first time in a long time (he, as we all know, went straight from one relationship to another) and he's having to learn the essentials of being alone: having hobbies, hanging out with friends, and finding a fresh creative outlet.
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"Being alone and just being fucked with daily didn't feel good," McBee tells VICE, recounting conflicts with cops and shelter managers, and of bylaws against park camping past 7 AM. She speaks rapidly, sometimes losing a train of thought, then picking it back up again.
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That's a nice perk for cold, winter days — but it also could be appreciated by women and others who are wary of being alone at the pump — like when pumping gas at night or in unfamiliar surroundings, for example, or anywhere they don't feel comfortable.
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Sasha Cagen is a life coach who offers lessons on how to embrace what she calls the "quirkyalone" lifestyle: a way of being for those who find themselves terminally single and just want to appreciate being alone until something perfect comes along romantically, if ever.
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Not just because I think it's fun to write and I like sitting at home and doing it and thinking and being alone with my thoughts in that way, and I don't ever want that to end, but because it's not how the pros do it.
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"Matt Lauer had a button under his desk that let him lock the door behind women who had just entered his office, but yes please tell me again how men no longer being alone with women at work will fix everything," wrote #GrabYourWallet cofounder Shannon Coulter.
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So the first song is "Planets of the Universe," which is this Stevie Nicks song that's about a relationship that doesn't work out and being alone until you die, which is something I think many young queer people think about, that they may never find love.
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The idea that being alone might be better than dealing with weak men all the time is a ruling notion in some of the other 2018 films that also center on women finding ways to live in a world where men try to crowd them out.
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As if gestating a human life, birthing it, mothering it alone—being alone, really—were not enough, there was also the task of acquiring, organizing, and maintaining every material item of consequence for yourself, your partner, and caring diligently for the tiny mammal your body just created.
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But instead of the blissed-out evening I expected, I spent the night acutely aware of my being alone in the off-the-grid camper on a high-alert adrenaline rush, spinning around in the small bed at every noise that pricked out of the silence.
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" Kardashian had previously denied involvement in Thompson and Craig's split last fall, responding to an Instagram user who claimed Thompson "left his pregnant girlfriend to be with you" and accused the reality star of making excuses for a "lousy womanizer" because she's "scared of being alone.
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Part around that and into the song's core message though and it details a rain-soaked environment of broken dreams, an encroaching idea of being alone and dying alone, a complete lack of self worth—in other words, the dark soul and strife of the British experience.
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Her new book, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (out March 1 on Picador), uses her own experience as a jumping-off point for an exploration into the work of artists who've found power in the isolation wrought by New York City.
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White House Memo WASHINGTON — As the partial government shutdown took hold over the holidays, President Trump seemed to express wonder at being alone in the White House with little but the cheeriness of heavily armed guards to keep him warm for the better part of a week.
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Season 1 ended with her on the couch crying in Molly's lap; Season 2 had her going to Daniel to sleep on his couch after moving out of her and Lawrence's apartment; and Season 3's ending showed her growth — that she was finally independent and OK being alone.
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For all the extremely great parts of it—you can, for example, go wherever you like on holiday and you don't have to tell anyone they're "so good, babe" at DJing—we ultimately live in a culture that lionizes romantic relationships, and as such, being alone can get lonely.
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There's surely few circles of hell lower than having to navigate the discomfort of being alone in a nearly empty room with a DJ and their bored significant other, but the early part of the night is still the sweet spot if only because it provides you with options.
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I knew it was a survival film, but I was very much in love with the simplicity of the story: the difference between surviving and being alive, and not being alone in the world, not being able to give up and die because somebody is holding your hand.
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I was, at that time, so miserable about being alone, and half-convinced by the logic that I could somehow solve the problem of loneliness by avoiding sex until I fell in love, that I was in the middle of a long and ultimately pointless stretch of celibacy.
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The only hope, Rojas suggests, lies in remembering the joys of companionship, the thrill of populating your inner space with the images of the people you love, so you no longer have to worry about being alone—or about killing your fellow crew members if they deviate from the plan.
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"At Home With Amy Sedaris" evokes that feeling through spectacularly deranged comedy: Although Sedaris's down-the-dial Martha Stewart labors under a sign that reads "Being Alone Is A-OK," she craves company so much, she lets a murderer (Michael Shannon) into the house in the Agatha Christie-themed season finale.
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Instead, "it was a song that had always resonated with me and my own story, because it's about someone who has become content with being alone and getting to that place of self love, and then suddenly having someone come into their life and rock their world," Mr. Goldschmidt said.
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There are enough people standing right next to them including ... I've done training of almost 93,000 of the folks, a large swath would call me, a large swath would call Liane, a large swath would call someone, so I think not being alone, really being super clear ... Hotlines or communication?
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Back in June, when Uber accepted a massive $3.5 billion cash infusion from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, I noted the irony of Uber accepting cash from a government that doesn't allow women to drive cars and that once punished a rape victim for being alone with a male nonrelative.
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Travis Back in June, when Uber accepted a massive $3.5 billion cash infusion from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, I noted the irony of Uber accepting cash from a government that doesn't allow women to drive cars and that once punished a rape victim for being alone with a male non-relative.
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They also cover a lot of ground — the struggle of being an artist who has to balance work with day jobs, the awkwardness of dating, the ups and downs of navigating a relationship with parents as an adult, and the power in turning being alone from something to lament into something worth celebrating.
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That's why many victims don't come forward immediately; that, along with the shame society showers upon them for not wearing the "right" kind of skirt or not saying no in the "right" way or not being perceptive enough to avoid being alone with someone they had no reason to believe would attack them.
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A Mississippi gubernatorial candidate is currently facing widespread backlash over his controversial decision to bar a female reporter from covering him for a day without bringing along a male colleague because of his Christian beliefs — but his policy of never being alone with a woman who isn't his wife could violate federal law.
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Kids benefit from happy parents, so if your balance is off-center, make a resolution for more "me" time away from the kids in the happiness-making pursuits of friendships, creativity, exercise, sleep or just being alone -- whatever you need more of in order to be a more effective and happier parent.
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I was roughly as afraid of the Rapture as I was of being the last person in the house who left the basement at nighttime and had to turn the lights out before I went up the stairs – it felt variously real and ridiculous depending on how close I was to being alone.
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But underlying all the blood and gore, Goldberg&aposs unhealthy fixation on those he loves might be attributable to a surprisingly common condition called love addiction — a desperate need to find someone to love unconditionally fueled by the irrational fear of being alone or being rejected, according to The Ranch Treatment Centers.
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Their strange, wandering trajectory now finds them releasing the vast and densely-woven Marrow Hymns with avant-metal lynchpin Profound Lore—a fittingly strange home for a fittingly strange band whose story takes in everything from thrash metal primitivism to the fine art of being alone and, ultimately, the urge to create something meaningful in a frequently meaningless.
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But the sanctions being called for by more than 20 senators and by groups including Human Rights Watch, and even the targeted individual sanctions envisaged by the State Department, would undermine an already parlous economy, entrench the Burmese in their sense of being alone against the world and render any passage to full democracy even harder.
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Titled "Used To Being Alone," it might not be as on the nose as "Back to Back"—it's lyrically focused on a former love interest, and plays more as an emotional dance jam that offers an opportunity for Banks to tread new territory and flex her vocals - but the hijacking alone takes the beef to new territory.
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It probably would be good for our health if we were more intentional about how we spend our limited free time, using it as a chance to practice things that modern life has made us extra uncomfortable with — like being alone or being bored — by offering us ubiquitous, immediate escapes in the form of digital devices.
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It was just more like working women — not even just women, just people in this area — which allows for questions about relationships with strangers, different ways people live in community, or the family nucleus, versus solitude, whether that solitude is just being alone in a bar or alone in your bedroom, and the complicated relationships you can have with a stranger.
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The shards of feeling that exist are saved (no surprise) for the guy time between D.J. and his ever-faithful sidekick, Stan, whom the invaluable Adrian Scarborough plays as a put-upon assistant who also happens to be his master's perpetual analyst: "You fear being alone," Stan observes of D.J., who for all his daredevil frolics wants nothing more than a friend.
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I'm told what to expect from being alone in absolute silence: No, I'm told, I won't go immediately berserk and insane; but yes, I will become hypersensitive to background sounds, which is why I spend the first couple of minutes scratching my own crackly stubble, or smacking my lips, or listening to the saliva slosh around in my own mouth, or breathing.
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I could actually openly talk about my history for the first time with people, and receive feedback from them, and get the sense of not being alone, which was the whole point of writing my book: to make people understand that they're not alone or to at least have them feel a little more comforted in knowing that everyone goes through the same struggles.
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Social isolation, defined as when a person lacks opportunity to develop social connections, and loneliness, defined as the feeling of being alone, both represent growing health concerns in the U.S. socially isolated or lonely person has an increased likelihood of negative health outcomes including much higher risks of major chronic conditions such as high blood pressure and heart disease, as well as severe mental health conditions such as anxiety, dementia and depression.
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A spy needs hundreds of these places, the sort of where he can be absolutely sure of being alone and know that he has nobody on his heels, where he can hide secret papers and objects and be quite certain that no children from the street or chance passers-by will find them, that there's not going to be any building work going on and that there will be no rats or squirrels, no snow or water to damage what has been hidden.
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Indeed, as Vox's Tim Lee has written, Uber has consistently applied the "it's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission" to a huge range of conduct that has nothing to do with rent-seeking taxi regulation: [W]hen Uber accepted a massive $3.5 billion cash infusion from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, I noted the irony of Uber accepting cash from a government that doesn't allow women to drive cars and that once punished a rape victim for being alone with a male nonrelative.
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