Loneliness Isn’t What We Think It Is

You can have 47 unread texts, a group chat on life support, a church small group on Tuesday and still feel weirdly alone on a Friday night.That’s the part we keep getting wrong about loneliness.For years, we’ve treated it like a math problem: If people feel lonely, they must need more people. More plans. More reasons to leave the house.A new international study suggests the problem is more complicated, especially for young adults.Researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis found that n