Hey everyone, it's Rachel.

As you know, every Sunday this summer, we've been bringing you episodes of our colleague's show Modern Love.

We're doing that for just a couple more weeks, and for this week, our host, Anna Martin, is here to tell us what's on the show.

Hi, Anna.

Hey, Rachel.

So tell me, what do you have for us this week?

Yeah, Rachel, I wonder what comes to mind when I say these two words.

All right, here we go.

Male loneliness.

Men get lonely?

I know.

It's crazy, right?

But no, but in all seriousness, certainly I feel like the societal-wide problem of being lonely has certainly grown as a concern, at least in my

periphery. Absolutely same, yeah. And specifically for men, there is actually data that backs up

this idea of increasing male loneliness. There's a survey I'm thinking of from last year that

showed that 15% of men reported having zero close friends, like no close friends.

That's five times higher than surveys from 1990.

So men have less friends these days.

That is really genuinely quite sad.

It is sad.

And it's one thing to hear those statistics, but this week I talked to someone who realized he was actually becoming

a statistic. I talked to the writer Sam Graham Felsen. He wrote about his experience, his loneliness,

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