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Persistence Matters More Than Severity

This is the second video in my reframing series on loneliness — looking at why some people are much harder to re-engage than others, even when they don’t appear “very lonely.”

Most engagement models focus on 'severity'— how lonely someone feels 'right now'.
But the research shows the bigger predictor of disengagement is 'persistence'— how 'long' the disconnection pattern has been in place, and whether the brain has begun treating distance as the safer default.

This shift matters for practice:
short-term loneliness can be met with light reconnection,
but persistent loneliness often requires rebuilding safety, mutuality, and trust before participation returns.
📚 Citations (for those who want the research basis)

Mund & Neyer (2016) — Persistent loneliness predicts long-term relational withdrawal
Jeronimus et al. (2021) — Duration of loneliness changes expectation of reward from connection
Stephan et al. (2014) — Entrenched loneliness alters cognition around social reciprocity