More and more people are spending the holidays by themselves. Here's why.
"Sometimes perfect, sometimes overwhelmingly depressing.""Dreadful. Except one in N.Y.C. with my dog. I made a giant roast just for me."
"Weird. I had just gotten divorced and didn’t feel like seeing anyone. But the solitude made me panic a bit.""I skipped altogether one year while nursing a broken heart.""Nothing much; that’s life."And those were just the highlights. I received hundreds. After reading these messages, I learned that there were more people out there than I realized who spend their holidays alone—regularly, in fact. But I also learned that many of these individuals feel a conflicting internal struggle between solitude and loneliness .
I found myself drawn, in particular, to the answers in the second bucket, especially the one individual who simply wrote"." The Portuguese and Galician word"has many definitions, including a melancholy nostalgia for something that perhaps has not even happened," writes Jasmine Garsd for
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