
Other types of loneliness are legitimate, but not this one.
“How, after all, can you be married and lonely?”
This is a type of loneliness that blooms when you are married to someone who doesn’t love you.
This is not a periodic loneliness. No, it is a constant loneliness that never leaves you!
It is the loneliness that arrests the blood flowing to and from your heart when you share your deepest feelings, only to have them ignored.
It is the loneliness that sees you, at a dinner with several other people, playing your part to the best of your ability.
It is the love that was once there and has now become a betrayal.
Until, one morning, you wake up and realize that you have given away so much of yourself that you are a shadow of the person you once were.
