Lonely Men are Dangerous Men: 3 Keys to Beat Loneliness

Many men are suffering from loneliness, but they are often so busy with life they don't notice. However, it affects how they live and the many choices they make. It can cause destruction in their life and in their relationships. Men need a community of men in their life and should be intentional about making it happen.

Lonely - "Being without company, cut off from others"
According to a recent YouGov poll in the UK, almost one in five men (18 per cent) owned up to not having a single close friend. Furthermore, one in three (32 per cent) stated that they didn’t have a best friend.
However, the survey also suggests that while men appear to be lonelier than women, in reality they’re less likely to own up to feeling lonely.
In 2018 the UK suicide rate rose to its highest level since 2002 – over 6,500 people took their own life (11.2 per 100,000 people) – a figure up 12 per cent on the previous year. And of those registered suicides, a staggering 75 per cent were men. Likewise, in the US, suicide as a whole is the highest it has been in decades and as of 2017, the male suicide rate was over three times that of the female rate.

3 Ways to Beat Loneliness

Evaluate Your Friends
- Why do you have friends and who are your friends?
- One of the most common friends we have as men is rust friends instead of real friends
- The thing we want to do as men is take the time to evaluate our friendships

Prioritize Your Connections
- Men are created for community
- You need men to be connected with
- Prioritizing your connections with other men is something you should schedule

Recognize Your Apathy
- Busyness can be a sign of misaligned priorities
- Apathy in one relationship breeds to other relationships
- Relationships that matter take work
- Too many men use their family to justify their lack of friends and feel ok about it

Lonely men are dangerous men, but you can do something about your loneliness