According to the Harvard Business Review, 40 percent of U.S. adults report feeling lonely. This attributed to the record numbers of people who live alone.
Technology can help or hurt, it's simply a tool but for too many people technology has led to substituting online connections for offline in-person connections.
Masculinity is tied to being self-sufficient and not expressing your emotions and certainly not admitting to feelings of loneliness. But many men do feel lonely especially after they get married or have children where their social circles narrow.
Loneliness is associated with a reduction in your lifespan that is as severe as the lifespan you see with smoking 15 cigarettes a day. We evolve to be social creatures and thousands of years ago if you were connected to other people you were more likely to have a stable food supply and to be protected from predators. So when you're disconnected, you're in a stress state.
We have for years thought about ourselves as an individualistic society that champions individual achievement but we're truly interdependent creatures and ultimately we need each other.
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