Men in America Face an Epidemic of Loneliness

[Contrarian Expatriate]

Being single isn't a bad thing, as long as you still get regular action in the bedroom and some sense of validation from your peers and the opposite gender.

Well being married is a hell of a bad thing because eventually, husbands DON'T get regular action in the bedroom nor any sense of validation from peers. They get trauma bonding with fellow enslaved husbands. I will grant you that they DO receive validation from women who tend to approve of husbands as good little slaves to their wives and families while unmarried men catch female scorn akin to that of runaway slaves who they would rather see doing their duty as tools for their masters.

Freedom, too, has it's perks. But I do think I felt a sense of... emptiness, from being single.

That is only because you lived an empty life as a single man. It is interesting that you use the term "single." Being single implies an unfortunate condition, while being unmarried is a positive, liberating, and exhilarating status. It is a shame you were never able to truly know the power and joy of being free of a master wife and children.

But I reckon for a man at a certain point in life, say thirty and beyond, it gets pretty lonely especially when you would see men your age getting married and having families, or at the very least having long-term girlfriends while you, in a sense, get 'left behind'.

Well you "reckon" quite incorrectly. I am in my 50's and I cringe each time I see a married man struggling with a bossy wife and ungovernable children. They look defeated, tired, resigned, and forlorn. It is a constant validation that the unmarried man is the man who made the smarter choice.

That has got to suck for a great many men who aren't comfortable with their own company and are hurt by the lack of validation their loneliness may cause them to experience.

What has got to suck is when married men are forced to cheat on their wives who no longer have to behave favorably to their husbands nor give them any sex. It also has to suck when men have to carve out man-caves in their own homes for any semblance of their own company because they are sick and tired of seeing their fat wife and hearing her mouth. Finally, it also has to suck that married guys like you can't see that the married guys are the most lonely because the statistics of infidelity and divorce in all societies bear that out. So tell us again which men suffer lives of lack of validation and loneliness?

"Projection" is more than just a image on a movie theater screen.

[Ghost]

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[HappyGuy]

One thing you have to give to evil Western regimes is they often seem to have a certain sense of poetic justice.

You probably don't want to gloat too much because you're living out that very same lonely existence.

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"Reluctant to engage with other men on anything that could make us seem vulnerable or too needy, we’ve been forcing the women in our lives to shovel our shit, becoming “emotional gold diggers” in the process. The most cloistered among us have retreated into a sort of petulant nihilism, finding strength in toxic web forums filled with self-righteous anger and Jordan Peterson quotes, a modern-day Fight Club where the first rule is never shutting up about it. Having more friends won't magically fix these problems—the real solution is therapy, folks—but we could all stand to get better at making and keeping friends, because social isolation is deadly. In 2014, former Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy went so far as to declare loneliness a public health epidemic, saying it poses a greater threat than smoking or obesity."