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Are you lonely?
I am at times
I have a dog too. She keeps my secrets

I've been MOST lonely when I was right next to someone I loved and not connecting....

....and have felt SO loved when alone with my thoughts

You are always loved...

Interesting... does your dog sometimes make you feel good/better about yourself? I have a cat, and I have to admit, sometimes he does make me feel better about myself.

Lee you slay me with compassion


Or were you calling me an ego-maniac

Many researchers have asked lonely people to give self-descriptions, and the findings look remarkably consistent across the bulk of the literature. In reviewing the loneliness literature, one is struck by the fact that, if there is a negative self-descriptor available, lonely people seem to apply it to themselves. Lonely people self-describe in very negative ways that span a large range of self-deprecating characteristics.

Moreover, lonely people tend to be more shy and normless, lower in self-esteem, higher in public self-consciousness, and higher in external locus of control than nonlonely people.[9]They also tend to behave in a more self-focused, less responsive manner when interacting in cross-sex dyads, and they talk about themselves more than they ask about others, suggesting a certain narcissistic self-preoccupation and lack of empathic concern with the welfare of the other.[18] Other researchers have found that loneliness in college students is linked to problems such as alcoholism, as well as to suicide,[30,31] and Russell[14] reports that high levels of anxiety accompany loneliness and that loneliness is often accompanied by high depression scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory(MMPI).

I try to stay away from self analysis, it always turns out on the negative/ extreme side.