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Psychology suggests that marriages that are technically working - the bills paid, the holidays kept, the affection small but consistent - can produce a specific kind of loneliness most people are never told to expect, because the difference between a marriage that functions and a marriage that nourishes is something the culture has agreed not to teach you to notice - Silicon Canals

A marriage can function externally while producing profound internal loneliness when it stops nourishing genuine being known.

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There's a specific kind of loneliness that only hits people who are surrounded by others but known by none of them - Silicon Canals

Research published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences found that the quality of social interactions - specifically whether people felt genuinely understood - predicted loneliness far more reliably than the quantity of interactions. You could see a hundred people a week and still qualify as lonely by every meaningful measure.

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There's a specific kind of loneliness that only hits people who are surrounded by others but known by none of them - Silicon Canals

#emotional-loneliness
#emotional-loneliness