To say that living alone is better than sharing a home with anyone?

Living alone is boring. There’s nothing like a lovely cuddle with DH and having someone to share my life with ❤️

It’s very individual - I’d hate to come home to someone having drawn a bath for me. It would take me 10 seconds pour myself a glass of wine, so that’s not a perk, and I enjoy cooking or can get a delivery if I don’t feel like it.

Depends on your relationship. DH makes my life easier. Coming home to a bath, glass of wine and a rest followed by dinner being ready after a rough day. I can totally understand that being alone is better than being with someone but being with the right person is nice.

Which bit?
Living alone works for some not all I would have thought that obvious, some enjoy company.
we'd have to stop having children Well if you want to be on your own having children sort of screws that up.
Solo living is the ultimate goal? seems to be, isn't that what the majority of this thread is about.

Which bit?
Living alone works for some not all I would have thought that obvious, some enjoy company.
we'd have to stop having children Well if you want to be on your own having children sort of screws that up.
Solo living is the ultimate goal? seems to be, isn't that what the majority of this thread is about.

Where did you get that from?

solo living is the ultimate goal? so this would include every individual so we would all have to stop having children?

I presume living alone works for some people not everyone?

I don't understand the attraction.

People will say "I can do what I want, when I want"

Well, so can I. But I like having DH around to do nothing with.

This. ^ It's OK to be alone short term, but shit long-term. I guess it's OK if you have had a shit relationship for some years, and a relief to be alone for a bit. But I don't believe the vast majority of people want to spend their entire life living alone. I find it rather odd actually. JMO.

This is the second thread in 2 days about how 'amazing' it is to be single and alone.... 🤔And how much 'stronger' and 'better' single people are than married people/people in long term relationships... 🤔

I don't see people blathering on about how great it is to be married, how much they wubz their hubby, and how they are 'stronger' and more 'successful' than SINGLE people.

Batshit! 😆Methinks the ladies doth protests too much! Who you tryna convince @MintZebra

Are you taking the piss?! 😆 It's a well documented fact that this is a myth. 😆 It's a silly little bit of bullshit that has escalated - because some single women try and convince themselves that they're superior to married women and soooooo much better than them, so they keep repeating this bullshit.

It was a tiny survey done YEARS ago, with just a 1000 women, and it's a load of bollocks that is repeated constantly on this type of thread. As I said, methinks the ladies doth protest too much. There wouldn't be so many millions of women on online dating, if all women were happy single.

You don't get married women/women in long term relationships desperate to convince everyone how sooooooooo very happy they are! 😂

I hated it too. When I first moved out (19-ish) I moved in with 4 people into a big Victorian House, (9 months I stayed,) then I moved into a flat share with 2 other women. (Stayed 15 months.) 2 years with other people. Then I got my own place. Stuck it for a year. I was really bored and lonely on my own, and was always phoning my parents, my cousin, and one of my friends. Was harder financially too. I moved back to my parents at 22, then met my now DH shortly after that and moved in with him at 23 and a half. Lived with him ever since. (Over 30 years!)

I think women who are very happy alone are far more likely to be people aged 45-50+ who have been in rubbish relationships. (For many years.) Most people I know who are younger and never married, have no desire to be alone forever. Why on earth would anyone want THAT?!

As has been said, that myth that single women are the happiest is a load of shit. It was done via a survey YEARS ago, with about 1000 people participating. Single women have clung on for dear life to this load of bollocks for YEARS now, to try to convince themselves that they are happier than married women. Methinks the ladies doth protest too much! 😆

As a pp said on another thread almost identical to this! (bedeepkoala)

As far as I know, the entire myth is literally based on a single sentence that some random academic said at a low tier conference which the Guardian picked up on and endlessly repeated since it fits their agenda.

Living alone with my dog I worry about what I'd do with him if I got ill. Being just me and him there is a strong bond. I know he'd fret without me.

Living alone with my dog I worry about what I'd do with him if I got ill. Being just me and him there is a strong bond. I know he'd fret without me.

I live alone with my dog. I do worry sometimes about illness - but then I remember how useless previous partners were when I was ill and how they would almost all have been liable to go off out and leave me at death's door and I realise that shouting to Alexa to call one of my adult kids in the case of severe illness or accident is probably better.

It is more expensive though having nobody to share the bills with. And then I remember previous partners and their dislike of paying any money....I actually think it's my shit choice in men that makes living alone so fabulous.