Almost never. I have to be a alone for a long time to feel lonely and I won't avoid contact or anything so I get my fill easy enough.
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Im not sure how you would even know.
Literally never
Rarely - I like my alone time.
"lonely" is a feeling that has nothing to do with being alone. I've been alone for so much of my life, yet rarely feel lonely. The last couple of decades I absolutely never felt lonely even. Except ... When I'm in a big loud crowd and I don't know anyone. Then I feel lonely. Very lonely. But once I'm alone again that feeling disappears.
I don't think I've ever been 'lonely'.
Being alone, sure, that happens quite regularly as my spouse and I don't live glued together and I'm not the kind of dude that needs to be constantly surrounded by friends or people. But when I'm alone I will most probably have a book nearby and I can hardly imagine better company ;)
Often. A lot of my friends are attached, so whenever I hang out with them, I'm reminded of the disadvantages of singlehood.
Hm, I think only on solo traves sometimes. For example when I arrived in Hebron Palestine, the Jewish bus driver was horrified to let me out in the city center and his panic rubbed off on me for a couple of hours.
But next day when I started exploring everyone was super friendly and nice and invited me for food and talking, etc. It was amazing.
That was 2019, I even recorded myself walking though the old city: https://tube.jeena.net/w/3FhHLhdfxHpEJGdGPTA3uA
Almost never, I have spent an entire week without speaking to another human and been fine. Granted I had a dog but still. It was actually incredibly pleasant and I think back on that memory fondly. It has happened before but it had more to do with feeling unseen than an actual absence of people
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