Is lonliness a real emotion men can feel?

[Anonymous]

It seems more like a patriarical construct to get men to opress women.

[jennifer_bloom]

If you ask me, a relationship is not for taking away loneliness, its for mutual help and family security for producing kids. If you're lonely, it's beneficial to make friends or socialize with family or churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, shrines etc...

[Asker]

Don't you mean to just be happy alone? None of those things are essential to happy or fulfilled life.

[Asker]

Replacing a relationship with friendship or faith is the same thing, it's sweeping the issue under the rug. If lonliness is a real emotion, the solution is to pay for therapy or to just work on yourself. Not relationships or any other social "solution"