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You have answered your own question, read this carefully “I keep getting this urge to just date right away because I can’t stand the loneliness.” Please, please, please do not search for somebody else to fill this loneliness gap.

Work on yourself and then when you are ready to find someone because you want to find a companion to love, THEN date. Don’t date because you are lonely as you will only attract similar people that are lonely too and usually this is a recipe for disaster. You need to work on yourself, you need to learn to love yourself so this loneliness subsides and you begin to enjoy your own company. You cannot rely on other people to take this loneliness away, only you can do this.

Read this book – its helped me tremendously – Self Compassion by Kristin Neff