7 Surprising Signs Happy Women Use to Hide Crushing Loneliness, According to Psychology
According to the team at Psychology Today, you could be so busy and focused on the needs of others that you never even recognize your own need for connection.
Keeping busy is a form of numbing that doesn’t look like avoidance, but often is.
The danger is that you don’t allow yourself any quiet space to actually process what you’re feeling.
And that emotional backlog can lead to deeper isolation over time.
4. Downplaying personal needs in relationships
When loneliness lives under the surface, it often tricks us into thinking our needs are too much.
