I agree. Learning to appreciate being alone and learning who you are while being alone is critical to being someone worthwhile in a R. I've know many people, mostly women, who have spent so much of their adult lives never allowing themselves to be alone -- they had to always have some intimate R with someone or else they couldn't feel content. As a result they suffered great anxiety when dealing with their own issues by themselves, and not having someone else to distract them.
My mother was once that way. But then she sort of has the excuse she was one of 11 children growing up, and thus being alone was truly a foreign concept to her for much of her entire life. It is only now that she has come to appreciate it -- and I see the peace she now has is more profound than at any time I've ever known her.
You have to be at peace with yourself before anyone else ever will.
