How do you deal with loneliness?

I do not live in a city, I live in the mountains. The MMA gym is one of two in the area and there are not many other things to do.

The total population of the two towns and surrounding area is under 20k. I live in the most populated part.

I avoid getting super drunk because it messes with my training and ive had problems with alcohol over the past couple years. I cut myself off after 5 drinks at the bar last week. It was a good night and the first time I had been able to be really social with people from my MMA class cuz I ran into them at the bar when I went alone but the night ended badly when the other guy in the group came up to me and said "you can have her second" in reference to the woman I had been with the whole night.

He's an asshole. I wanted to deck him right there. The other girl stopped him from taking her home because she was insanely drunk and the whole time I was in the passenger seat just thinking "what the fuck just happened" and struggling to process it. It was so awkward.

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