Accept it. You will suffer loneliness as a man. It will get so lonely somedays you will be willing to pay for a woman's company. You will be racing down the highway wishing you had somebody to share the experience with. Loneliness is inevitable. Desperation is not.

I have never felt lonelier than I felt this week traveling home. Childhood friends died. The remaining married too soon (in my opinion). I anticipated a night of merrymaking and recollections but at the end of the day, I was all alone in a foreign hotel room. It's hard.

My first instinct was to call everybody. Anybody. But when I sat down to think it through, I realized that we all have our journeys. I do not feel complete enough to give myself fully to a woman. I am happy for them. But I would be lying if I said I could be them right now.

So yes, loneliness is tough. It is scathingly brutal, but it does not have to degenerate into desperation. I cannot wait to share my life with the mother of my children, but I have had to accept that I cannot be that father & husband right now. So on we march! We will be alright.