How do you deal with being lonely? My sitch has been a long one, not quite 2 years. Id be lying if i didnt say that the loneliness is really wearing on me.
I dealt with it by filling my time up with stuff I enjoyed doing. I went to the gym almost every day, picked up my old hobby of building and flying R/C planes, blew the dust off my motorcycles and started riding them again, started hanging out more with friends, etc. etc. On the weeks I had the kids I of course focused on them, but on the weeks I didn't have them I was busy non-stop. I had no trouble sleeping, my days were so packed full that I would collapse in bed exhausted by the end of it! And I've kept up with that in the years since- I have memberships at a CrossFit gym as well as a conventional gym and work out 6 days a week, and have recently started getting back into sketching and clay sculpting. I am so busy that the thing I lament more than anything else is not having MORE time to do stuff! Heck when my GF wants to come by I usually have to carve time out for her. I can spend the entire weekend alone at home and never once feel lonely.
