I dare you to end up alone

Photo by Oleksandr Pidvalnyi: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-kneeling-on-shoreline-317061/

There’s this pervasive fear in our culture of being alone. There’s even a name for it — monophobia. But even to a smaller degree, this fear drives so many of us to stay in bad relationships. And it’s easy to see why.

Some of us know solitude intimately. I’m looking at you my fellow introverts. We relish the beautiful silence of an empty home after a long day at the office. And yet, that same home may feel like a…