Scott, I have found the daily contact I used to CRAVE can actually be met deep, deep, within MYSELF with my boundaries in place....I learned this the hard way, it seems......I still get lonely...but it's not a completely lost lonely.....more of a deep self knowledge that goes with me wherever situation I find myself in...

It's like the Whitney Houston song "The Greatest Love of All," she found it in herself...even if we marry we eventually lose the spouse and we are back to square one, ourselves..

Thank you for ensuing this discussion, I think others will chime in, too...great question...