I have friends at work and people I can call, but they don't really need me. Loneliness affects our physical health, as well as our mental health. He says, for example, how divorced men die earlier than married men. They have twice the death rate from heart disease that married men have. Although, I must tell you in all candor there could be other mitigating circumstances as well.
Food is less important.
Eating well, taking care of yourself becomes much less of a factor when you are doing it alone. And as we will see shortly, not every marriage is an antidote to loneliness. Feeling alone is not bad. Sometimes it's very good. To be alone is to be by one's self, and to like it.