I just had to come back one more time after reading all your comments!
We have comments here saying I am really lonely, not a loner.
We have comments saying I am really an ‘introvert’
One member saying I am just isolating myself from human contact by having friends in cyberspace.[that one made me smile]
A member saying I am only a loner until I fall in love and then I will realize that I was not a loner but lonely before I met my ‘one true love’
And several that read my thread understood it because they are also blessed [yes, I did say blessed] with being a loner.
Alice says she is a loner but must have her cats. That makes you a cat lover Alice, not a loner.
We have one member that commented three times criticising my definition of ‘loner’ that apparently has little or no grasp of the English language whatsoever but is convinced that she is an expert linguist? [Gave up on that one]
But a refreshing number of comments from members that understood because they have the one thing you need to be able to understand what it means to be a loner.
To understand what it is to be a loner you need to be……..a loner, like me.