Hate the weekends.
“‘I spend all week running around looking forward to some free time but then I wake up on Saturday morning and don’t know what to do with myself. All my friends are married and babied so they’re off at the park or doing play dates. It’s easy to feel very alone on a Sunday afternoon, and I fall into Netflix binges. There is now so much you can do to pass your time, that you’re almost not aware of the fact that you haven’t left home all weekend. Same with Facebook – it feels like you’re interacting but you feel more lonely after it.’
It can be easy to let that ache take over, and occasionally I’m filled with a deep malaise as I contemplate the time on my own. Quilliam says, ‘Being lonely centres around the feeling of being unappreciated. There’s nobody to talk to on a minute to minute basis. If you’re with a partner, even if he’s out, he’ll be coming back.’”