322: How to be alone without freaking out

This week's question comes from a listener who finds it hard to spend time alone without having a really difficult time over it: "Hey Bart. Okay, so when my girlfriend goes away on business trips, I experience a ton of anxiety. And it isn't that I'm jealous of her - I'm I'm totally glad that she's having these experiences - but I get really anxious and my tendency is to want to immediately fill that space with with someone so that I don't have to have that negative feeling of being all alone, which I really hate. Is there something wrong with me? Thanks." Both Bart and John relate to the question on at least some level, and think it's a fairly common feeling. But is it fair to say that there's something wrong with someone who feels this way? Takeaways: Comfort being alone is harder in the digital age, it needs to be exercised and cultivated, sometimes we may be fleeing the sound of our inner voice, there are things we can do to be better at this. -- NOTE: We have an issue with our podcast feed that is owed mostly to an ongoing issue within Apple's podcast partners platform. This means you may be missing these latest episodes in your favorite podcast app, which upsets us greatly but is kinda out of our control. A fix should be coming soon. Humanize Me is now available on Spotify! Subscribers can listen right inside the app. Open Spotify, search for 'Humanize Me', select it under Podcasts and press 'Follow'. Got a question for Bart to answer in a future show? Call the ‘Q Line’ at (424) 291-2092. Enjoy the podcast? Support it at Patreon.com/HumanizeMe and get extra content for it! Please review us on iTunes (it really helps). And join almost 700 other listeners on the show’s 'secret' Facebook Group. (See, we have some secrets of our own.) Humanize Me is hosted by Bart Campolo and is produced by Jux Media.