Most people think they know what loneliness is.

They point at an empty Friday night. A holiday spent alone. Some chapter of their life when they didn't have anyone.

And they call that loneliness...

But that's not loneliness. That's being alone, and those two things are not the same.

In this episode, I'm talking about the five specific types of loneliness I've watched play out over and over in the people I've spent time with.

The loneliness of being surrounded, of being misconstrued, of being self-concealed, of being accomplished, and of being untethered.

And how a single person can end up carrying all five, stacked and compounded, inside a life that looks completely full from the outside.

This one is for the person who has never been alone ...