There is no one way to understand loneliness, it happens to each and every one of us at some time or another. Loneliness is an emotion like all other emotions with both positive and negative aspects.

Loneliness in an unhappy marriage tends to bring out the negative aspects that are more familiar to us such as the feeling of emptiness, self-pity and tears plus feelings of discouragement and of being unable to overcome even small obstacles.

The plus side of loneliness is that sometimes you need to be alone with your thoughts, they can help you to identify what is and what should be important to you. Thoughts act as a guide to show us where and how to turn a negative situation around.

Overcoming loneliness begins with building your self-confidence up. Recognizing who you are and what you can be will shift your expectations of yourself. By making a habit of focusing your attentions on the small steps that you've made in developing and building up your self confidence and that, All Alone feeling will start to pass.

Living in a lonely marriage that already has problems can be more than difficult and that feeling of loneliness can be devastating when the one person in your life doesn't listen or seem to care about your wants and needs, and isn't easy to talk or relate to.

Regardless of how down hearted and discouraged you become you have to learn how to turn negative situations around in your favor.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed: we are perplexed, but not in despair. II Corinthians 4:8