By extension, relative to those with insecure attachment styles, people with secure styles are the least likely to feel lonely in adulthood (Shorter et al., 2022). As an adult, you would continue to repress your lonely feelings. Rather, things in the current environment, including people, can trigger an emotional experience that was already in you. So, if you feel lonely…. If something happened to make you feel lonely, see if you can view it as a triggering event of an emotion that already had a place in your experience.