Below are some selected entries made to my guestbook.  I hope that perhaps you can identify with some of the sentiments expressed here.
After being arrested for DUI back in October I made the decision to reconnect back with my faith in God. I put my life in his hands and have quit drinking. This has also meant I've quit hanging out at the bar and closing myself off from all the friends who do nothing but drink and go to bars. As the haze of alcohol has lifted I've found myself very alone. I treasure the time I spend with my family and especially my niece and nephew but at the end of the day I still come home to a big empty house. Thru all of this I've come to learn many different things about myself, that I'm stronger than I thought, that prayer leads to healing, that hugs from the kids mean more to me than all the money in the world. I just want that feeling to last all the time.
Javier 1/1/2009 Rated site: "Helpful"
thank you, for the first time in a long while I feel that there is some hope for me.
Gill 1/5/2009 Rated site: "Very Helpful"
Made many things clearer and also gave me ideas of how to make lonliness less effective..Maybe I will join groups, talk, write about this subject and look towards helping myself and others. Thank you for putting up this website, which I came across accidentally. 
D. 1/29/2009 Rated site: "Helpful"
this makes me feel not sooo lonely 
Diana 2/2/2009 Rated site: "Helpful"
It always helps to see things in writing by another. I don't know what I would do without the internet to reach out to. I wish I could change. 
Lori 2/3/2009 Rated site: "A Little Helpful"
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Terri S. 2/14/2009 Rated site: "Very Helpful"
just feeling pretty miserable, alone, and...empty. Wanting to find some help 
Vickie 3/3/2009 Rated site: "Helpful"
i dont lead an interesting life, i know to make friends i can be interested in their lives, i believe in treating others the way i want to be treated, when they ask me about my life i get angry, annoyed, aggrivated, thats the last thing i want to be to anyone so i mind my own business, i had family, classmates, but never friends, now i have no family, coworkers, but no friends,
Terri 3/3/2009
Sean, thank you very much for creating this website. It is very informative and helpful for me to see in which level of loneliness I already am. Apparently, from scale 1 to 10 with 10 for the worst, I am about 9.5. I sent you my story too, hopefully it helps other people.
I see myself in the information about loneliness.
Thanks for the infos.
Morgan Koen 3/6/2009 Rated site: "Very Helpful"
I dont know what/if this web site can hekp me but I am in desparate need of help, & by that I mean I need to know how/when/where a 50 year old woman can find friends, lovers ect. PLEASE help me, I'm at my wits end.
Betty 3/8/2009
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Matt 3/15/2009 Rated site: "Helpful"
the unbiased approach you've taken on coping with loneliness and the types of loneliness were great to read because it made the ideas more relatable and applicable for me. thanks!
Celine 4/2/2009 Rated site: "Very Helpful"
Still trying to navigate but I like what I see. I signed up this morning and have not yet received the confirmation but hopefully it will come soon.
Brett 4/13/2009 Rated site: "Very Helpful"
it sucks.
Hannah Layne 4/28/2009 Rated site: "Not At All Helpful"
Thanks for the website, I find it very clear and serious. 
Hello from Colombia.
Fred 5/2/2009 Rated site: "Helpful"
That's the funny thing: In my head I can have thoughts and ideas whizzing round, but when it comes to talking about them, my brain shuts down. Like an in built circuit breaker stopping me from explaining myself.
Rob 5/9/2009 Rated site: "Very Helpful"
Hello there, i was reading posts in your guestbook of 2008, and came across an insert from someone called Wayne, who suffered from his loneliness as a result of chronic blushing. well as i have never come across any one elso with this problem i thought i was the only one. i was v interested when i read waynes insert. i would v much like to get in touch with this wayne gentlemen, but dont know how or wether this is the norm, please suggest. Thank you.
Debra 5/22/2009
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Amira 6/5/2009 Rated site: "A Little Helpful"
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Franco D'Orazio 6/11/2009 Rated site: "Helpful"
Wow, I just googled "painful loneliness" and came across your site. I've been feeling the way you describe in your writing and for over several years now. I couldn't have been more surprised on how well I relate to what you wrote. It was as if I written it myself, very strange for me to say the least. Well, reading your passage has really helped me today and I'd like to say thanks. I just also realized your name is Sean too (from your email address), which is another crazy coincidence. 
Sean 6/16/2009
It would be helpful if you can provide some platform to exchange thoughts between the people who are currently seeking help.
Satish 6/21/2009 Rated site: "Very Helpful"
to read more...having technical difficulty i guess 
Laura Isely 7/7/2009 Rated site: "Not At All Helpful"
Even though the background looks kinda creepy, i really liked this site. I don't know why but it made me feel a lot better :P 
Amber 7/10/2009 Rated site: "Very Helpful"
I KNOW THAT I AM GOING TO BE LONELY, FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. BUT I DO NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS. I CANT CONVINCE MY HEART AND MY MIND THAT, WHAT I AM TELLING THEM IS THE TRUTH, I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS BECAUSE, I CANT TAKE ALL THIS PAIN...ANYMORE............
Amber 7/14/2009 Rated site: "A Little Helpful"
I have just read your site and found there a lot of points that are personal to me, let me state now I have no friends I feel a lot of what you write is so true I see my home as an open prison and have no incentive for to go anywhere people on TV say go out make friends but I just can not do it I ( live ) exist day to day it is horrible I have lived with this for years I'm 66 but its got worst since I had to give up work on ill health some time back witch brings up your point of others to talk too assuming you will open up in first place, anyway enough but thank you for the chance to read a little on the subject may I say all very true 
10/20/2009
I read a few articles this afternoon on the internet, and yours was by far the most informative and appropriate for me. I like the differentiation you describe between trait and state loneliness. I also appreciate the way you talk about people looking for that special someone that we cannot find, and how we are limited in our ability to love and be loved.
It's a chronic problem for me. I live alone and have very few friends that I keep at a distance. Lately I've had this compelling desire to be in a relationship, but I know that none of the other relationships I've had ever worked out because of my unwillingness to be hurt. I'd like to change that in myself.
Anyway, thanks for the article.
10/31/2009