Traveling alone, I finally confronted my fear of being alone with me. I needed to take time to learn that being by myself was not some scary state. August 16, 2018. Perspective by Maria Del Russo.

In a 2014 survey of 2,000 adults, one in three said they fear being alone: 40 percent of women and 35 percent of men. The world is riddled with distractions that prevent us from having to feel ...

The fear of being alone is not something I had ever considered "a thing." Snakes, spiders, tornadoes, sure. But solitude, not so much.