Answer: Loneliest
Clues: “Sad” and “Solitude”
Loneliness has quietly become one of America’s most widespread public-health issues – a chronic, grinding isolation that hits people year-round – but the holiday season magnifies everything. Expectations about how Christmas “should” look turn private solitude into something that feels like failure, leaving many people dreading a day that is meant to feel joyful.
A Mission for Michael surveyed over 3,000 adults who live alone to understand how many expect to spend Christmas in solitude. The findings suggest that a staggering 14 million Americans will be alone this Christmas.
Wisconsin ranks as the loneliest state this Christmas, with 45,424 residents expected to spend the day on their own.
Infographic showing state-by-state Christmas loneliness figures