Will Loneliness Protect You From Your Greatest Fear… Love?

Loneliness is not simply a symptom. It is a strategy—an unconscious, defensive medicine against the terror of intimacy. We often assume people “suffer” from loneliness, but for many with insecure or avoidant attachment styles, chronic or pathological loneliness is less an affliction than an unconscious solution. In other words: loneliness is the antidote they have chosen against the unbearable poison of love.