For growing numbers of people the weekend is an emotional wilderness where interaction is minimal and social life non-existent. He is one of nearly 200 respondents, from Falmouth to Jakarta, who replied to a request on the Guardian’s website for readers to share their experience of weekend loneliness. Despite all this, the phenomenon of weekend loneliness has scarcely been studied. But we didn’t ask about the weekend.” So what does weekend loneliness look like, who experiences it – and what might be done to alleviate it? Increasingly, she finds herself out of step with her social group where she lives in Somerset.

Source: The Guardian January 16, 2020 06:01 UTC