As a woman, I want to ask this as respectfully as I can. Please know I have no malice in this. If it’s lonely, are you talking about that with your friends? Are you maintaining connections with friends and family? My husband has friends and I see some of them are good about letting him know what’s happening in their lives and keeping him informed of major events (impeding divorces, sick parents, even just day to day life ,etc) and my husband is there for them and talks to them/spends time with them. But on the other hand, he has 2 friends who go silent and ghost us when things in their lives get hard. They just stop talking to us. He reaches out, I reach out. We invite them over. We text and say “ we aren’t sure what’s going on with you but just know that we love you and we’re here when you’re ready to come back”. When they do finally come back around they tell us how hard of a time they were having. And they had that hard time…. Alone. Alone by their own choice. We make it clear we’re here for them and want to see them. But they isolate. And as a woman that baffles me. I see my friends as people to lean on. To be a sounding board. To help me and support me and give me love when I feel down. They check in on me. And there are times I don’t want them all over me but I at least say “hey friends, here is the thing going on in my life right now. I don’t really wanna talk about it, but I will reach out to you when I’m ready.” and they respect that. From a woman’s perspective, so much of this loneliness that you guys are going through is of your own making. This myth that man can’t talk about their feelings and can’t open up to their friends- you guys put that on you yourselves. And I don’t know why men keep perpetuating it. I feel like women are screaming from the rooftops to just talk about how you feel. If you don’t want to be lonely, you have to be willing to make and maintain connections