It shouldn't shock you that we're lonely. We're years into a global pandemic, and even before so we were in the midst of a "loneliness epidemic." In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy sounded the alarm on the loneliness epidemic, stating that, "approximately half of U.S. adults reported experiencing measurable levels of loneliness" before the onset of COVID. In the last few years, loneliness has only been exacerbated by our current reality.