I've lived much of my life alone...but rarely lonely. If you don't reach out to others, you will always be lonely, because people assume you wanna be on your own. Invite someone out for a coffee, or whatever, joining a social/church type group or as someone else suggested, some voluntary work. If you have an interest (photography, trains, etc) there are lots of specialist groups around who would welcome another member. You may find that they are full of other lonely people who just want to be with other people.

If you want a life partner, then I'm not the best person to ask, but I guarantee if you don't put yourself out there, you will never meet someone who wants to spend the rest of their life with you.

I wish I had known. I don't have a problem being alone, but it does feel lonely at times. I've tried socializing more even though I'm an introvert. I even joined a band. It helped but then the feeling of loneliness would intensify as soon as I got home. I figured the only way I could prevent this is if I get married, which I wasn't really keen on earlier. I hope it helps though. I'm getting married in November... If this doesn't work for me, then probably I have tried everything and failed to find an answer.

I just got used to it. No one wanted me around, and I stopped wanting to try 🤷‍♂

Everybody is lonely even peeps that arnt alone

do a few hours of volunteer work. spend hours in the gym.