To think that most women crave companionship, even if they don’t always admit it?

If im asked to go with friends i can and not have to rush back for anyone.

Though IME this does rather depend on your friends also being single and looking to do stuff with you. It's tough shit if all your friends are preoccupied with partners and families and will only do stuff with their friends a few times a year. As I said on another thread, as a single person you either have to be happy to do stuff on your own when you fancy doing it - go for a coffee, go to the theatre, go to a concert, anything - or wait for your friends to have time to fit you in. Plus no one is mentioning sex of course, which given that the OP has cut and run, is probably wise.

Exactly this.

Read the thread and then you might understand what I am 'spouting'. If the thread is too long and you can't be bothered to read it all then to sum up -
My point is about the original poster and these types of drop and run, provocative, anti feminist, anti woman, trad wife type OPs that occur daily on MN.

I'm a feminist and I would say it does impact on the choices I make.

I can only speak for myself and i do what the fuck i like and all i could not do before.
I can close my door when i get home and unwind watch a film or binge online knowing know one will ask me do so something.
If im asked to go with friends i can and not have to rush back for anyone.
But being around alot of drama in the past i really dont have time for it now my space is mine.
I really have got to know myself over the years.
And i love my peace and quite time alone.
I can say i am genuinely really happy.

Only you know what will make you happy.
Like right now most are getting in and getting tea on waiting for their partners/kids etc, getting night time routines in place.
im sitting on my bed eating crisp and binging on mumsnet & looking for a mini getaway.
Sometimes i think people just need to find themselfs again years of raising kids maybe along marriage etc.
You being second to everything nows the time to change that.

As a single woman/parent of 16 years if we're going to be specific...
I have to say -

I have no idea what the pair of you are spouting about.

Some of us just make a choice without wondering whether we are a feminist or not.

Same here.

I don't understand people that do need someone (thinking of a highly successful friend who admitted she did and went from relationship to relationship).

Maybe it's my mental energy and feelings that know I couldn't cope with that over and over so I choose nothing.

Everything they post seems guided by the principle of hammering home that every aspect of human behaviour is gendered. Everything boils down to whether you're a man or a woman. If I want companionship it's because I'm a woman. If I don't, I'm lying about it because I'm a woman.

This one is particularly boring though. Humans want companionship with people they like. Not with people they don't. That determines it rather more than their genitalia.

I love my friends.

I don’t yearn for romance. I feel like it’s a trick!

The most lonely I have ever felt (apart form terrible times in my childhood) was when I was married and wanted to be out of the marriage.

It was an awful feeling, I don't want to hurt my ex, I felt trapped and just so so lonely as I could not be myself

What’s the secret to living like this happily? Don’t you ever get lonely or bored or sad? Genuinely interested to know how to do it happily. My kids will fly the nest in a few years so I’d like to know how you live happily alone.

It's the 'even if they don't always admit it' that interests me. Sounds like this is you telling women that you know them better than they know themselves. Tiresome.

Never bothered me.
I love being alone i live alone and wouldn't change it.
No pets no kids no man no drama blissful.

I think that is actually makes me post more feminist stuff in retaliation. They often highlight the exact things that men do really really badly, like companionship, and then run off.
It actually makes me think about it more.

The problem for me is the repeated pushing of anti woman/anti feminist bilge. It's a drip drip drip in an attempt to change perspective, create division and manipulate what people find acceptable/mainstream view.

I also don't want to spend my life interacting with BOTs and more frequently this is seeming the case on here. If it continues I'll probably sling my hook.

Well, sure, but I think I’d rather be aware if an OP is a habitually name-changing poster who asks the same type of deliberately clickbait-y questions every day or two, rather than someone raising a topic in good faith. Absolutely you can engage with other posters who are replying in good faith, but I’m not keen on being part of someone’s deliberate coat-trailing policy.

Best just to reframe this is your head - it doesnt actually matter if the op is genuine or not. If one wants to participate in this discussion, they can. Even If it’s clear the op has no intention of returning, you can use the thread for your own means - sort out your own feelings or listen to what other people have ti say.

You can spot them a mile off now.

It’s the same poster as usual who uses a variety of three-part names and posts a clickbait title question, aimed at stirring up debate. Very occasionally a subsequent post, often not.

Oh I see this was a plop and run from OP.

Most of the single middle aged women I know do not have pets - myself included.

I would be interested to see if more single people have pets compared to married people. I doubt it.

Yes you see that here and there but lets not act like the overwhelming messaging from society is that being single is a defiency. There is no equivalent, married term that holds the contempt the term “spinster” does.

And yet again we have a tripartite-named OP asking a clickbaity question.

So. You mean 'humans' not women. hth

That's not my experience. While they do want all that, they also want someone to listen to them, sympathise with them, flatter them and encourage them, sort out problems for them (while ideally pretending its them that have arrived at the solution), ask them if they're OK, make them feel good about themselves. And all this tends to intensify as they get older and less 'relevent' by comparison with other younger men. Unfortunately this often tends to be something of a one way street, with many being quite poor at reciprocating the things they want and need. Men do want companionship, the problem is, they're not always the best companions for women. Hence a lot of women choosing to be single, and a lot of men being forced to be.

Well i dont presume it is just woman, I prssume all humans need connections of some description