Loneliness
Many single folks fear domestic or foreign travel because they may have no significant other or friend to share their travels with. They fear the loneliness of traveling alone. ‘Loneliness’ is the mind’s self-perceived emotional feeling of isolation, lack of companionship or being “unwanted”.
Not an idle concern. Human bonding has been fundamental to man’s evolution, survival and civilized advancement. We seek bonding in our personal, familial, and casual lives.
The fear of traveling alone is real. Avoidance of Loneliness is 3rd in Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs.
Anecdote: At 28 I won the Dating Game TV show(s): with an all-expense paid stay
& personal tour guide at exclusive Villa d'Este Hotel on Lake Como, Italy which I then extended with 2 weeks of solo independent travel to other nearby countries. Yet, I came home early because I felt lonely without a romantic partner to share.
A LBT experience is the complete opposite of “alone’s loneliness”. Rather, it is a crowded, jam-packed melting pot packed in a large tour bus moving to & thru a tourist site like a gaggle of chickens humans* in close physical proximity of fellow travelers for several days or weeks.
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