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Romantic Loneliness Scale (RomLon)

Does a lack of romance leave you feeling lonely? Four questions.

4 items · About 1 min

How to answerThese statements are about feelings to do with romance. Whether you are single, dating or married, choose how true each one is for you as you are now.

  1. I easily become captivated by romantic thoughts.
  2. I feel sad when I think about being romantically alone.
  3. I feel left out when I see other couples expressing affection.
  4. I feel like others are having better romantic experiences than I am.
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About this scale

The RomLon is a 4-item scale published in 2025. It measures loneliness that comes from a lack of romance in your life: no relationship, dating that keeps going nowhere, or romance gone from a marriage. Totals run from 4 to 28; higher means stronger romantic loneliness. The authors give no cut-offs, so bands use the scale midpoint, not norms, and are not a diagnosis.

SourceHusain, W., Husain, M. A., Ijaz, F., Farrukh, J., Batool, F., Tahir, N., Trabelsi, K., Ammar, A., & Jahrami, H. (2025). The romantic loneliness scale (RomLon scale): the development and validation of a novel and brief measure to assess loneliness stemming from the absence of romance in dating, hookups, and marital relationships. BMC Psychology, 13, 895. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-03208-8 Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License: "This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made." (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: the instructions and the midpoint-based bands were written by this site.