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The Truth About the Male Loneliness Epidemic

How the dating apocalypse exposed female frustration and male misery

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Joe Duncan
Oct 17, 2025
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My very good friend Mike has been single for at least fifteen years. To be honest, I lost count some years ago when he was in his eleventh year of girlfriendlessness, so it may be more than that. When I say he’s “been single for fifteen years,” I don’t mean if you added up all the years he was without a girlfriend across his life, they’d sum to more tha…

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