I am a man that loves to cuddle before my wife stopped sleeping in the bed with me we would cuddle and hold each other. There were alot of times in the night I would reach out for her just to feel the security of someone else there since I have put on weight my wife is afraid to sleep in the bed. She is a smaller female and I weigh over 320 lbs and am natural large and flop around trying to get comfortable since she stopped snuggling....I can hardly get her to hold my hand anymore. ..I know the loneliness that you feel dogs help cause most of them are not much smaller than another person in the bed