Have you ever experienced loneliness, if I may ask? Because I read about it, but I don't know what it feels like, and this seems to be a rarity.

ETA: Or grief, because that's another one? It sounds callous, but I feel like if my spouse died, I'd be over it within a month, and that that's not a function of the quality of our relationship, but of the fact that me getting married in the first place was so improbable that it only ended up happening for very non-traditional reasons.