A little piece of wisdom I've learned through my trials and tribulations... It seems best to avoid denying any feelings of loneliness you may experience. Try to accept and feel your loneliness to the bone. Allow yourself to feel lonely when you see two friends or lovers together. When you purge from consciousness your longings for social connection, you lead yourself into thinking that you will never have—nor be allowed to have—the kind of relationships you long for. In denying your real feelings, you give yourself license to feel that you are unworthy of social connection, or that there is something so wrong with you that nobody will ever want to relate to you. Acknowledge and integrate your feelings of isolation into consciousness. "This will sustain you through the difficult times during which you are alone but are actively seeking new relationships. Paradoxically, it will also give you the hope that is necessary for your search for new relationships. Indeed, feelings of loneliness continually remind you of the joys of human relationships; it is reminders of this absent joy that will continually encourage you to seek new relationships. The minute you stifle feelings of loneliness, you forget about these joys. Consequently, you stop seeking the relationships that you so obviously need.