madli

I don't know you very well GG, but I think you're far too independent and accomplished to actually not have anything to do with your time, or not know how to fill it. I suspect that what you're calling lonely, is actually you missing your husband. Just accurately naming the feeling sometimes helps.

It's a good thing that you miss him when you're apart, a reflection of how much you love him. So if it's any comfort, think of it as a healthy relationship emotion, you wouldn't want not to feel it. Something along the lines of that hopelessly romantic, though slightly saccharine, line - "I have always loved being alone - I never knew loneliness until I met you".

So it's not that you're asking what to do stop being lonely, you're asking to what to do to stop missing him. I'm suggesting you don't want to stop missing him. Accept that particular feeling. Besides, nothing helps with missing someone other than the passage of time and then their return. Try to remember what you used to do and enjoy when alone before you met him.