The house was unusually quiet the year I started doing more things alone. Not in a lonely way. Just quiet. Weeknights without plans. Grocery runs by myself. Long walks where nobody was filling the air ...

I had lived alone before, and was comfortable doing things independently. But going to the performance alone had all the ...

I like people. I want to make that clear upfront, because every time I tell someone I spend most of my time alone, they look at me like I just confessed to something. Like solitude is a symptom. Like ...

Women who have felt alone most of their adult lives often develop specific traits as they cope with their struggles on their ...

I have a friend who takes herself to dinner. Not as a sad consolation prize when plans fall through. On purpose, deliberately, at restaurants she’s been wanting to try, with a book or sometimes ...

Nobody knows it was a really lovely, profound time.” Spending time going places and doing things alone can be transformative, says Jessica Gaddy, a therapist in Los Angeles and avid solo traveler. She ...

We live in an age whereby people are fearful of doing things by themselves because they are constantly afraid of what others are going to think/say about them. The presence of the Egocentric wave in ...

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

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

When I was a teenager, my family and I traveled more than 5,000 miles from San Marino (the country, not the city in California) to Seattle for vacation. One of the places I was most excited to visit ...

Traditionally, the holidays are for spending time with family and friends, perhaps with a varying degree of religious rituals or practices. There’s also pressure not to miss certain family ...