The High Price We Pay for Our Fear of Loneliness

We often make some very peculiar and regrettable choices on the basis of a hidden and unmentioned fear: that of being alone. But once we realise that there isn t, in fact, anything to fear about being on our own, we ll be liberated to make some far healthier decisions. Sign up to our new newsletter and get 10 off your first online order of a book, product or class: For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: Our website has classes, articles and products to help you lead a more fulfilled life: FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: Its not hard to understand the fear of being alone: the empty apartment after work, the eerieness of Sunday afternoons, the sense of exclusion during the holidays We know the agonies of being on our own very well. What is far less well understood, and less eloquently br, br,