Over the last two years and a bit that I’ve been hanging out at AVEN and polluting the fora (and the flauna????) , there have been more than a few threads about lonliness. A few have mentioned lonliness in their titles, and two such threads at least have had new posts this week. Problems with lonliness, how to deal with it, why it happens, etc. And how many threads have there been about avenisti who have been abandoned by their closest friends when said friend finds a regular sex partner? Well, I’m not going to say anything new, necessarily, but I might parse it a little differently.