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This week is Loneliness Awareness Week marking 10 years of giving loneliness a voice.

And I couldn’t let it pass without being honest.

I’m 47. An empty nester. And I was lonely. I just didn’t know it.

Instead of sitting with the feeling I went to over 50 networking events. Told myself it was about business. But the truth was I was searching for connection.

You can have your family around you, your girls in the group chat, a whole social life on paper and still feel unseen.

But here’s what I found on the other side. Not just contacts. Friends. Collaborators. People who see me for who I am, champion me and push me to think bigger. A space where my ambition didn’t feel strange.

Loneliness is not weakness. It is human. And it can affect anyone.

Has this stage of life felt different to what you expected? How are you really feeling today?

For more information, please check out @marmalade_trust 

Drop your answer below. Let’s have the conversation so many of us are afraid to start.

Tag someone who needs to hear this.

#LonelinessAwarenessWeek #GiveLonelinessAVoice #EmptyNester #BlackWomenOver40 #connectionsmatter
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