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Why do some women stay single for a long time?

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70rule · 29/09/2019 19:37

Inspired by another thread I didn't want to derail with this.

I've been single for over a decade. I've had a couple of flings and a FWB during that time but never come close to anything resembling a relationship.

My best friend split up with a man she was living with this time last year. She met someone else 3 months later and is now living with him. It happens this way often to many of my friends, yet I never get so much as chatted up. I'm happy enough so I'm not sitting at home crying about it or anything, but how do some women get a steady stream of interested men and I seem destined to be eternally single.

At risk of sounding arrogant, I don't think I'm bad looking, have a good job, lots of friends, a busy social life, so I'm not just sitting in my house expecting someone to knock on the door. And yet I never meet anyone, ever. Or if I do it turns out they're married/afraid of commitment/much too old for me. What is the trick?!

OP posts:
DeeDeeKayKay · 30/09/2019 11:10

Ive already got one child and would like another but not desperately so im not arsed. Also as a single parent any free time id rather be out with my mates. Ive been on match.com its dire

DeeDeeKayKay · 30/09/2019 14:30

Also i dont want to be responsible for looking after inlaws. I want to just look after my own parents

paap1975 · 30/09/2019 14:32

I was much like you until I met my Mr Right not long before I turned 40. We are now happilly married. I'm glad I waited, to be honest

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