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When You Worry You're Becoming Too Comfortable Being Alone

I have been single for five years and I am genuinely happy alone but sometimes I panic that I am becoming too comfortable with solitude and will lose the ability to be intimate.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Self-sufficiency can become a refuge that paradoxically threatens the very vulnerability required for deep connection.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Loneliness and the Desire for Connection?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.