Same here. Another isolated holiday for me too.
SUCKS.

I'm sorry that you're going through this rough time. It may be hard to believe right now, but it will get better. It has to!

FWITW, gone are the days when I'd be part of "family" get togethers for holidays like this, cook-outs, the "traditional" summer activities people participate in.
Doing the same thrilling things you are my own self.
Only difference is, once the holiday is over it's still going to be just another day around here.
Hope you are able to find something to get involved in besides the tube and sleep!!!!
As lousy as it is, I'm darn glad you're still here to gripe though!!!

Tomorrow, I'm settling for bad company as supposed to being home alone, but GOD...I don't know which one is worse!

I am sorry that you are going to be alone some holidays are hard when you are alone but others do not seem to bother me as much. Stay strong and we are here for you to talk. I am going to MA for a wedding for the weekend and might not know everyone but it is better than nothing to me.

I would much rather be alone then be with people who are not helping me emotionally. I shared this quote with another DS member. It's so true.

Sometimes the people thousands of miles away from you can make you feel better than those right beside you.

Hugs GB

you could reach out by joining a meetup group and getting off the bed to go to some events that they plan for the weekend....it is just getting out of the comfort zone for me....

also there are probably parks that have some kind of events like concerts for free....we have them here now that summer is here....watch TV or get a newspaper and see if any event is available to take a chair to and sit within a crowd and hope for some kind of interactions or just people watch in the local mall from a bench....getting out of bed is the key...I know...I live in my bed too...it keeps me from spending money..LOL

The meet ups and churches and other social options in my area are the very definition of painful mistakes. Hard to realize that in order to survive I must tolerate a level of isolation that is pathological in it's affect. But that is the size of it. I can exist, but never live.
Flogging this critical issue with energy for six years now, still completely out in the cold. Hope my calendar runs out soon. I am tired of existence rather than life and have thrown my self at the stone wall of relatedness and connection w/o and decent outcome for so long it is just not bearable.
My solution: to get as many drugs as possible, stay on them. I don't want these feelings and NOT going to endure them another six years.
If you are over sixty, have no relies, gk's, relocated .. in this place, you are just COOKED. Back on the meds I had quit as of today. The xanax stops the tears. That's all I am going to get out of life, it is pretty clear.
If you are younger, especially male: world is still your oyster.
I thought I could turn this around by diligence, easy going-ness, acceptance, flexibility, trying, TRYING. but the only change coming for me is the end of my unloved life, with patience, at least this will be over.
Six years of doing every damn thing possible to meet and connect, and nothing to show for it on the holiday in isolation, the only kind of holiday I ever have. Just venting. That's all there is to do.

I have been confining my hopelessness to a locked journal for awhile. This was another outburst that would better be locked away. I wish I could remove the posts, but maybe someone else here is helped to know that they aren't the only ones that lonely. Who knows?
Apologies.

Comparing always makes things worse, along with being confined or cooped up.

If you can't get outside, you can uncover a window with the best view possible.

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"Give yourself a goal every day, and just get better." Dolvett Quince