Research suggests that the loneliness of people in their seventies is rarely about being alone — it is about the slow disappearance of everyone who knew the version of you that existed before the losses began
There is a quiet kind of loneliness that often emerges in later life, especially in one’s seventies. It is not always about empty rooms or lack of social contact. Instead, it is something more subtle and deeply emotional. It is the gradual disappearance of people who once knew you in a way no one else … Read more