Big Al,
First of all, your feelings of loneliness are certainly expected. When God first created Adam our earthly father, He acknowledged, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him," (Gen 2:18). And thus The Lord God created Eve to be his wife and help meet. We can also read of Adam's approval and excitement when he uttered, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:" (Gen 2:23). And finally, the bond that existed between them, Adam & Eve was a relationship which could never exist between anything else God created except between a man and a woman. For God Himself said, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh." (v. 24)
What needs to be considered now, however, is that despite this very intimate relationship which a husband and wife are to have, it is secondary to that relationship which we are to have with our Creator. This can be easily understood from what our Lord Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, said here:
Matthew 22:37-39 (ASV) "And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second like [unto it] is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." (cf. Deut 6:5; 10:12; 11:13; Josh 22:5; Mark 12:29-33)
Please note the order of one's affections, loyalty and obedience... Love God first! Love your neighbor secondly. So, what is your point, you might ask? Let me answer you with a quote from William Bridge:
"So long as man has encouragement elsewhere, he does not encourage himself in the Lord his God...Now when God sees that his children fall in love more with the nurse than himself, then he removes the nurse, and causes their peace to be suspended and interrupted."
Another Puritan, Thomas Guthrie spoke in a similar manner when he wrote:
"If you find yourself loving any pleasure better than your prayers, any book better than the Bible, any house better than the house of God, any table better than the Lord's table, any person better than Christ, any indulgence better than the hope of heaven - take alarm!"
And lastly, the Lord Jesus Christ spoke these words,
Matthew 10:37 "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."
And,
Luke 14:26 "If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not [loves more than me] his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
We can see clearly from just these passages and there are many, many more which address the same idea, that we are to love God first and foremost above all things including those closest to us here on earth. For He, God, is worthy of our whole being for it is from Him that all things are given, including those whom we love; even the love we have for them and they for us.
Lastly, I couldn't offer anything better than what Chestnutmare has offered for the purpose of bringing comfort to a weeping heart. The Psalms are a record, especially of David of Israel, a man after God's own heart, of the human spirit and it's relationship to both God and man. In them we are given to know what it is like to love God with all one's heart, mind, soul and strength; to love the law, precepts, statues and commandments of God with one's whole being for in them is life to be found; to suffer at the hands of those one considered to be close friends, even one's very own son; endure persecution, trials, tribulation, etc.; and to know the love of God as that which is most desirable for He is a covenant-keeping God Who never abandons His own. There is much to be gleaned from the Psalms. But perhaps there is nothing more important than they point to Jesus Christ as one's true love, hope and joy. Oh yes, He is there if you look for Him.
As an addendum, I want you to know that this is not to diminish the comfort that humans can offer to each other. We are to "bear one another's' burdens". But it is no less true, that the comfort one human being can offer another human being pales in comparison to that comfort that God gives to those who are united with Christ. Our mutual comfort is simple and temporal. Christ's comfort is deep and eternal.
I'll let God have the last and best word:
Hebrews 4:12-16 (ASV) "For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help [us] in time of need."
In His grace,