A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression
A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression
“Loneliness is defined by psychologists as a perceived discrepancy between desired and actual social relationships.”
I bet a lot of it has to do with the internet. Watching people on-line documenting going out with their friends and doing all sorts of stuff. While the lonely person is...sitting at home on the internet.
We didn’t have that influence growing up. Although I do recall sitting on the front steps with friends and trying to figure out what to do, with numerous suggestions squashed for some reason or another. Even worse when it was raining on a school day and your friends were stuck inside. “I can’t, I have homework, etc.”
It does get easier as one gets older.
The guys are lonely because they can’t get laid. The girls can’t get laid because they aren’t sure the guys are real guys and the unsure guys aren’t positive about if they are really guys or girls and have already screwed themselves. The rest are ugly. Hey! It’s a guess. I’m not a professor and I’m 86’d out of Holiday Inn for organizing a who can pee the farthest contest on the balcony of the 5th floor with a keg of green beer. Also No body was Irish and lonely.
If they liked themselves, they wouldn't be lonely.
The decline of the family surely is
I ride my bicycle many miles into the woods to be lonely.
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
My suggestion: INVADE FRANCE!
Statistics show that in Germany young people are the worst affected: A quarter of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 say they often feel lonely.
If the article doesn't further differentiate between men and women between the ages of 18 and 29, and if it doesn't then go on to explain that men define and experience "loneliness" differently than women, then the article is useless.
Regards,
If younger people these days would put down those d@mn phones and stop scrolling social media and testing each other to communicate, and get out and do volunteer work of some kind, there wouldn’t be a problem with loneliness.
The cost of living is a driving factor.
When my husband and I bought out first home, our mortgage on a brand new 2K house was only 92K right in the heart of DFW.. At the time, we were making 80K.
The same house now sells for $300K.
That means a couple needs to pull in about $250K to keep roughly the same ratio.
We sold that home and bought our 3K house for only $226K. Our home now appraises for 525K. Young people can’t afford it.
I get why they still live at home.
It think the big thing is the loss of true friendships. Most people don’t really have friends, but acquaitances.