Sorry to hear that. Pretty much the same for me since I started middle school up to now (in my early 30s). To this day I have no close friends. During my years as a student, after school it would pretty much be just me sitting in front of the computer. My cell phone call log? Mom and dad, and the occasional junk call. Post-school, as an adult, it was pretty much the same. Like the article states, it physically hurts sometimes to be truly lonely.

I hope loneliness is over for me, now that I got married very recently. If you're wondering how that happened, it was a blind date setup by my aunt. I was lucky to meet someone that liked me, and had things in common with. I was really lucky that she still liked me even after she found out I had no friends, and pretty much no social life.

I hope you are able to fight your way out of loneliness.