Loneliness test
Loneliness is not one thing. Ten questions to find out which kind you are carrying, because they do not have the same answer.
A mirror, not a measurement. Ten honest questions, no account, nothing saved.
WHAT YOU LEAN TOWARD
You are lonely in company
Your loneliness is not about the number of people around you. It shows up hardest when you are with them, which is the version nobody believes because from the outside your week looks full.
What is usually happening is that the contact is real but the ease is not. You are present and also managing: how you are coming across, how much to say, when to leave. That is work, and doing it in company is more tiring than being on your own.
The thing to get specific about is which relationships require the managing and which do not, because the answer is almost never all of them.