Single by Choice

[Chocolategoggler]

Hahaha I get told I am "intimidating" regularly, but I'm also super friendly, chatty etc.....so I think what they mean is "You come across far too independent and it scares me!"

OMG!! I forgot that one! The major thing that is said about me by blokes.
Women will approach me in a shop and start chatting
Maybe that's when my resting bitch face accidentally switches off.

 

[Beaversabout]

Hahaha I get told I am "intimidating" regularly, but I'm also super friendly, chatty etc.....so I think what they mean is "You come across far too independent and it scares me!"

A bloke said to me after a game of pool, you look aggressive and unapproachable but your actually the opposite. Ok..thanks. I was smiling before ffs.

 

[shadowcat5]

I think you lot might find this video interesting. Number 2: I probably wouldn't have even described is a 'trauma couple' tbh. I think that's arguably the most common type of relationship

 

[L3moning]

Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - which shaped Key's expectations of love

If that album shapes your expectations of love then I can see why you'd be single!

 

[mediocrehouseplant]

How are we all feeling the day before valentines day?

I'm going to the cinema tomorrow with a group of single friends to watch Knock at the Cabin

 

[Amoo]

Young couples' conversations annoy me.

Sulky-faced guy: *Incoherent mumbling*
Girl *High pitched giggling like he's just told the funniest joke ever*
Repeat repeat

 

[Meringue22]

This made me smile

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Bloody love this!

 

[qqwertyy]

This is a nice article about being single and also covers being childfree (behind a paywall but just run it through a remover site)

I’m 49, childless and haven’t had sex for five years. I’ve never been happier

After my last relationship ended eight years ago I chose to start living life on my own terms

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[kendallroysdownfall]

I bought a lovely Bonsai from Asda yesterday!

 

[LaBlonde]

Oh I’m luckily in that it wasn’t for them and they wanted me to be open because you just never know and I totally get that but I don’t know how. This is where I don’t know how I would find someone when I need something there first.

i think you said earlier that you identify with being demi too? (sorry if this wasn’t you ) but THIS exactly. i cannot feel an instant attraction to anyone really, i have to have some degree of feeling of what they’re like as a person and some level of slow build before i even consider it. meeting in bars doesn’t work for me and i’m not sure if i would/will ever meet a man who will go at the glacial pace i need. maybe one day!

i always like speaking to other demisexual people. it’s still so new and it’s valuable to know it’s not just me

 

[Remotecontrol]

COVID permitted walk a day really brought out the codependent couples. Bloody hell you couldn't prise them apart to pass them on the pavement holding hands. I actually had to calm down and not be rude & yell insults at them! I mean COVID really put the "SINGLE" sign on ones forehead.

Yes this was a PITA. No worries I’ll just walk into the bloody road while a car comes because you two simply can’t walk single file for two seconds.

So many of them will have lived together too, so they’re spending all day in together and then rejecting the only chance of having time to themselves. Madness.

 

[newtoyou]

The way they smell in the morning the musk from under the duvet, their breath... and majority of them don't even wash their hands regularly let alone their arseholes! you know how many men are out there wondering around with shitty arseholes that haven't been washed since they were 6?!

anyway...

I didn’t know whether to or at this. You’ve conjured up quite the image!

 

[Zenchick101]

If said SHAG was guaranteed to be a satisfying experience for YOU then I would say go for it but in my experience and many other app defectors, it's a bit like a needle in a haystack, ie. Rather unlikely!

probability is indeed low, can confirm that

 

[drewydrop]

Maybe you could split up and go off and do your own things if she’s comfortable with that? I think it would drive me mad being with someone 24/7

Solo travel advice & recommendations

Hoping someone on here is / has been brave enough to go on holiday alone and can give me some tips! I haven't been on holiday at all for about 5 years for various reasons plus of course the pandemic. My husband doesn't like going abroad (won't fly, everything else is too much hassle for him &...

tattle.life

I would definitely be up for that but I don’t think she would. Shes can’t even go for a coffee by herself but we’ll see.

Cool, will take a look!

 

[Fledgling Psycho]

Life. Changing!

It's return from the ceiling life changing!

 

[tomato_paste]

Also, a question for all of you - how do you deal with being touch starved? All I want is to be held sometimes.

 

[Zulkraa]

What’s orthorexia?

This website has more information:

Orthorexia - Beat

Orthorexia is an unhealthy obsession with eating “pure” food. It's not currently recognised clinically as an eating disorder.

www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk

 

[Meringue22]

I'm single by choice in 40's.
I just can't be doing with a relationship.

Same

 

[Sabbie]

Sadly that's a spin on the actual origin. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/spinster-meaning-origin

 

[mousey]

In my house, It’s me, my mother and my daughter so we live in beautiful harmony. The only trouble we have is with my Bengal cat and surprise, surprise - he is male. They are all the same! He does nothing round the house and expects us to weight on him hand and foot. He is such a little shit and I refuse to believe a female cat would have the same attitude!

to be fair, I have a female cat and she can be a little shit as well