Loneliness and Family Size - Poll

In My Humble Opinion
1

Inspired by this thread, my question to you is two parts:

  1. Roughly how often do you often feel lonely
    and
  2. How many kids in your family of origin?

I come from a family of four kids, and I rarely feel lonely.

2

  1. In normal circumstances I rarely feel lonely. Assuming we’re excluding things like missing a specific person, which is a relatively constant factor in my life right now.

  2. Three kids in my family. Not huge, but by no means small. While I spend most of my time away from everyone else while I’m in my parents’ house and often wish they’d leave me alone more, I will admit that it’s nice that there’s almost always someone floating around on the rare occasions I’m in real need of companionship.

3

Well, I have my wife to keep me company, so I’m never really lonely.

I have two brothers who live thousands of miles away. I talk to the one furthest away all the time on MSN Messenger and he’s been here to visit us a few times. The other one e-mails sporadically, but not enough to keep up a relationship. It feels like we’re strangers. I don’t know my other relatives at all, so I don’t feel a connection to my extended family. Sometimes it feels like it’s just me. But there’s my wife now, too, and the connection to her is stronger than any other that I ever felt.

4

I have a younger brother, one mother, one father and a dog.

I’m rarely alone and I rarely feel lonely. Even if there’s no other human in the house with me, there’s my little dog to keep me company. :slight_smile:

5

  1. I can’t exactly remember the last time I felt lonely, though it was in my childhood. I haven’t been lonely since becoming an adult

  2. I had one brother.

6
  1. I feel lonely at least a few times each day.
  2. I was an only child until I was 11, when my brother was adopted at age 6.
7

I’m a bit of a loner, so I don’t think I could ever say I feel ‘lonely’

No siblings.

8

I have 6 other siblings right now so it’s really hard to be lonely even after my brother died, the house is never quiet and my brothers have friends over a lot and I get along with them and their friends.

9

  1. I am a loner, and I feel lonely maybe once every three months or so. Briefly. It lasts maybe an hour, then just goes away.

  2. I had one brother, and my mother and father. All of us are pretty anti-social - not in a rude way, we just don’t go out a lot. Homebodies, all.

Also, I need to get my prescription updated, as I read this thread as “Loneliness and Family Size - Doll” and I’m thinking “what the heck is with all the kinky porn threads lately?” :smack:

10

That should be have. He’s still around, just on the other coast.

11

  1. Historically, when not in a relationship, I often felt lonely. I’ve always preferred having a SO in my life.

  2. 4 kids in my family.

12

Rarely feel lonely.
I am the third of four siblings.

13

I rarely feel lonely. That said, I expect to experience it once again in a couple of weeks, when I will be briefly hospitalized after surgery. Those late-night hours when I feel awful, can’t sleep, and no one’s there to keep my mind occupied are the worst.

I’m the youngest in a family of eleven.

14

Hmm, doesn’t seem to be any correlation between loneliness and family size. Thanks all, for input.

15

  1. More or less constantly. Occasionally distracted from the feeling, but it’s always there.

  2. My entire family is my brother and my mother.

16

  1. I’m lonely almost all the time. At least five days out of seven (husband usually gets two days off a week). Why? I have no family nearby and no connections in this community, I’m unemployed, pregnant, homebound and shy. Internet helps with boredom but I can’t say I’ve made any really relationships.

  2. One younger brother. He lives on the other side of the country. We’re not close and have nothing in common.

17

Never lonely. Youngest of five kids.

18

Male, third child of four.

Feel lonely most of the time.

19

I am the second oldest of 9 kids. I moved across country and I occasionally feel lonely. I live with roommates so I don’t feel alone. I hate being alone during the night. It has only happened a few times in my life and I freak out and need to have the lights on. I need to have someone else in the same building as me. It could just be a strange quirk of my own though.

20

  1. I feel lonely constantly, since I live in a different state then any of my family, and all of my friends live in a different city. However, this is about to change in a few weeks, as I’m moving much closer to them.

  2. I am the youngest of 6 kids.