There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. A person who is alone might be perfectly happy enjoying their own company. Are you feeling lonely and single? Does feeling of loneliness haunt you? Are you getting depressed about being single for so long? There is a reason why you are feeling alone, and […]
Have you ever thought “to hell with dating”? Do you feel that you’ve had one bad date too many? Believe me, I share your feelings. Dating is like a sport; there are unwritten rules that you need to know if you want to win the game and if after the tenth (or twentieth) attempt you
No matter how many dating sites you join and how many friends you ask to hook you up with someone new, it seems like nothing is working out for you. There are many reasons why relationships work out and why they don’t. You know that old saying: you can lead a horse to the water,
Being a single female beckons questions like “Why don’t you have a boyfriend?”, “Are you courting?” and “When are you having children?” Not only is it insensitively intrusive to implore about private subjects, the common assumption is that a woman must be in a steady relationship to be happy or complete. Hearing “I want to
I feel like I’ve been brainwashed my entire life from holiday commercials. There’s that diamond commercial when the perfect couple is getting cozy in their enormously expensive house with the fireplace warming their bones in the background, the ideal family is now on display. The woman unwraps and opens that cute and perfectly wrapped Christmas
Are you struggling with dating and finding that ‘right’ somebody for you, your ideal soulmate? Dating life gotcha down? I’ve been there. How do you continue to be single without hating yourself? I get upset with myself sometimes. I think to myself, “What am I doing wrong? What can I do to improve my dating
There are plenty of perks to a single life, such as feeling free and independent. But what about the challenges of being single or its disadvantages? There are plenty of things to watch out for. Maybe you’re the type of person who finds ill-fated love romantic, and your previous relationship was doomed from the start,
I can write a list about all of the things about being single that make us feel like there is something fundamentally wrong with us. The dinner parties where you are on your own. The nights out with all of your couple friends. The family functions where you are put on the kids table or
Feelings are like colds. You catch them and oh boy have I caught them. But unlike a cold, you cannot just take two pills and sleep it off. This is much more complicated and harder to figure out. If you have been single for a long time like me, you become somewhat immune to feelings.
There is nobody on this planet who benefits from a lack of love. Having caring and genuine love in your life is very beneficial to a person’s emotional growth. There are many different types of relationships that we can form. Each relationship is like a snowflake; it’s completely unique to a separate relationship. Even within
Dating can be somewhat of a mystery to people who haven’t done it in a long time. The act of courtship these days is different than it was in previous generations. Your great-grandparents might have built their romance when they walked home together after their church service was over. In the 21st century, dating websites
Have you ever heard anyone saying that sometimes it’s better to be single than in a wrong relationship? I have. Statistics have shown that people in an unhappy relationship are worse off than those who are single. I can’t roll my eyes enough in relation to the number of times I’ve met women and men
Perhaps you’ve been on the dating scene for a while now, but you’re not getting the leads or results that you desire. Not only that, but it’s going on months or years, and you still haven’t found anyone that you would consider dating regularly in your life! What do you do now? Do you bury
It’s obvious that human beings are wired to seek companionship from others. After all, without relationships, there would be no babies. Without babies, there wouldn’t be people to work and advance our society. With the abundance of singles events and dating websites, one would think that everyone on the planet feels desperate to be partnered.
You’ve been living on your own for a while. Actually, it’s been ages. Your partner moved out sometime ago. These days you have become pretty set in your ways. Time for a change? Remember the old couple talking on the bench at Brighton pier? You know, the ones with the handkerchief on their heads and varicose