subject: Loneliness In Men [print this page] Loneliness in men comes to the limelight when they are found struggling to retain their relations with others successfully. They may be among a crowd of people but they are still feeling isolation due to a myriad of reasons.
Busy In Career-Building
It has been noted that people have become more cautious to build their careers rather than building their relationships. They have much less time for their affairs, friends, and other people as compared to the ones that their elders had in the past. They have forgotten dating, friendships, and interaction as they seem to have no time for them. The situation is so serious that blood relations, in many cases, are found to be deprived of having any time for each other. Money, business, and a desire to have 'more' has over-powered every one where it is becoming more and more difficult for the old combined family system to continue with its pros and cons.
Men Losing Their Command
Men used to be in command of everything in the past and the same is expected from the men, even now. The world has changed where all the norms and values are also changing around the globe, with the advent of an educational boom. Now, women are more active as compared to their predecessors, where they are doing jobs in almost all fields of life.
Jobs Are Taking Them Away From Society
Man has become alone where the loneliness in men has come due to their own negation of the society. Men and loneliness have now become inseparable for each other. Man was considered to be the head of family and was respected in ages past. But now, he has been taken away from most of the social activities as he has to work hard to earn his living and to meet the bare subsistence level. He has to do more than one job to make social and temporal needs meet. Life has become really hard for him while a woman stays at home and shares her thoughts, heart, and mind with children, relatives, and friends, while the man is at work. Male loneliness knows no bounds when it is found that a man has become emotionally aloof from all of his relatives, friends, blood relations, and even his own kids.
Global Village - Moving the People Farther Apart
A village or community used to be the place where all human beings live together where they share one another's sorrows, pleasures, and other feelings and pursuits. Now life has changed, advancements have occurred everywhere, and all the communities have almost merged into a one global village. Paradoxically enough, instead of getting closer to each other, people have gone farther from one another and men are becoming the primary victims of solitude.
Rejection by Women
Another problem that he may face is the rejection by his life partner to fulfill his urge for sexual desire, which may lead him to male loneliness syndrome or MLS. It is a mental disorder of heterosexual males who suffer from constant rejection by their mates. Thus, men have been suffering from a lot of problems for being cut-off from the society.
Thus, career-hunt, love-rejection, unrequited love and so forth, have led men to experience lonesomeness. They may have everything else but love and associations are far from sight.
