I don't think being alone is really great for anyone, honestly. In numerous studies, people who live alone tend to have much poorer health, especially psychologically. On one side of my family, although I'm not actually related to them, social anxiety runs deep in their blood. They're also very depressed, to the point of frequent suicidal thoughts.
All of that side of the family has basically been alone their entire lives, living that way out of fear, and now that they're older, it's really painful for me to even think about.
We're humans--we're not meant to live like that. We can't. There is a biological reason why we seek the company of other humans, and that's the only reason why our species has survived for as long as it has, in the same way that it has. In nature, we can't survive alone. Only in modern society is that actually possible.
That being said, being alone is several orders of magnitude better than being in a bad relationship. Being single does have its perks, as I mentioned earlier, but there really is no compensation for human companionship.
It's stupid as can be, but that is the way it is. If I knew of a way to make things any different, I would have said so by now. The only thing you can really do is try not to think about it... which is why it's always so weird to see
other people in relationships.
This is why Valentines day always sucks, lol.
