I know how you feel. My husband abandoned me with our newborn a couple months ago and I've never felt more alone. I shouldn't feel this way because I have my baby, and should be focused on her but I can't help the way I feel. I never considered myself dependent on him, but I miss him being around.

I don't know why it is so difficult but it is. I have been separated for 2 years now. I have both kids they are 17 and 21 but i feel so alone. I have tried to make social contacts but fail every time. I have given so much of myself to my family that i lost myself. This is the only place that i have support but it is still not the same as having some one next to you. All we can to is try.....good luck....love you

No witty answers for you, only my sincere empathy!
I hope we all have a brighter tomorrow!

Thanks guys, it always helps to hear supportive and kind words from friends. Doesn't make it any better that I broke it off with guy that I have been seeing since January. We have known each other 6 yrs. I found out that he had been seeing several other women, so I confronted him about it calmly and respectfully. He simply said that unless I caught him having sex with them, I shouldn't worry about it. I just said that would not happen because I wouldn't try to catch. If it has to be that way it's not worth it. He said that he wanted to remarry someday but wasn't going to settle down anytime soon. So I just said I understand and hope u understand that I won't wait until ur through playing and wished him well. Funny that he had been saying he loved me and we have been spending lots of time together with our kids (his son, my daughter). He even mentioned marriage a couple of times. Just something to keep me holding on.

Get involved in something you are interested in and you might find Mr. Right! Put yourself in the path where you can meet new people who share your interests. Do you like arts and crafts? Join a class at your local arts and crafts store. Do you attend a church? Join a study group. Whatever you do, do not go to clubs or bars to find that special someone, because they are only looking for one thing in those joints. Good things come to those who wait and your time will come! Just concentrate on all you are blessed with and have in your life right now, and dont concentrate so hard on the things you dont have. When I feel down, I just think of how much worse things could be in my life, and how bad it is for others who are less fortunate than I am. After all, we live in America where things are so much brighter than for those who live in countries being bombed on a daily basis. Where babies lay in filth and have flies on their eyes and mouths because they are too weak to swipe them away, with swollen bellies due to starvation, and only have a single grain of rice to eat on a daily basis. See, things could be so much worse. Your time will come, just be patient. There is someone for everyone. You just havent met him yet, but hes on his way!

I've got somebody and I'm still lonely. And we spend every night together when I'm not traveling for work and as much time as we can when neither of is working and yet there is still this lingering loneliness.

Working from home and being isolated from the real world doesn't help and days like today are simply long, lonely, boring and dreary.

Just with this one post you remind me of a very good friend of mine. She had everything but the one missing piece -- she has a good job, is a strong, independent person, she's kind, pretty, etc., etc. but she kept attracting the wrong guys. But through some hard work and changing her patterns, she found a guy over a year ago who is good to her and she is now engaged.

It can happen, but it takes hard work changing who you fall for sometimes.