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Not to dismiss your suffering (God forbid!) but I would like to add --

1. There are degrees of loneliness. Even in some families, while the greatest desolation is staved off because of all the "people" around, still there can be a constant loneliness in the background (think: parents with zero Trad Catholic friends to socialize with, confide in, etc.) Think of all the families who can only get to a Trad Mass once a month or less, and even then, there aren't any adults their age to be close to or socialize with. Or no Trads to see/visit within a 1 hour radius or more.

2. And then there's being "lonely in a crowd". Not all families, or spouses, are completely close or get along well.

I can personally attest to #1 (fortunately, not #2).

To varying degrees, and for varying reasons, this Crisis is hard on a lot of people. I can only imagine how much suffering must be out there among Trad Catholics.

May God grant you His grace and consolations.

And then there is the individual - no spouse (widow/widower/singleton), no family, perhaps no job, no Mass centre... it can be very gloomy. After all, God did say "it is not good for man to be alone". However, with every trial, we know that God will give the grace. Yet that does not necessarily give much comfort when we are in the midst of the trial.

I remember Fr Conrad Daniels (what a great Retreat Master) relating a story of his own experience. If I recall, he was a young priest in France, and he picked up a gentleman hitchhiking. The man seemed very depressed and Father tried to cheer him. Ah Father, I've just lost my wife in an accident. Fr tried to console him. Ah Father, if only that were all... he continued to relate a series of tragedies that had deprived him of all his loved ones in rapid succession, leaving him all alone. Father was trying to give us some understanding of the pain of loss of the damned, worse than any physical pain.

One could give a lot of advice, but it's cold comfort when you are passing through the trial. All I can say is hang in there Bataar, unite your suffering, especially this Lent, with Our suffering Saviour and His Sorrowful Mother, and offer your pain to save those poor sinners at the point of death from passing into eternal loneliness.

Please keep me in your prayers.

I'm in the same boat as you. I will pray for you, Bataar. Hang in there.

I have the same problem.

Let us try to imitate the great saints who's minds were so greatly occupied by the presence of God that, they could never feel alone.

I think it helps to just come to terms with loneliness or whatever the struggle, accept it, and move on. It's not that easy, but it's easier than just dwelling on the misery. Rather, dwell on all the good that has happened to you being very thankful to God for: whatever food and drink you have had, whatever shelter, work, transportation, money, past friends, preservation from worse evils, for even the smallest of pleasures, and most certainly for the true faith and the fact that your eternity is not judged yet. Thank God for these things, and even for the loneliness, which Jesus also suffered in his agony in the garden when his closest friends slept. Ask Jesus to be your friend, and be his as you now have loneliness you can suffer with him. 

One could give a lot of advice, but it's cold comfort when you are passing through the trial. All I can say is hang in there Bataar, unite your suffering, especially this Lent, with Our suffering Saviour and His Sorrowful Mother, and offer your pain to save those poor sinners at the point of death from passing into eternal loneliness.

Yes, very good post ^^^