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Middle aged and single at Christmas and I'm SO GLAD, anybody else?

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Snowy0w1 · 24/12/2020 12:24

I ordered all the food, just have to take the lids off, ordered the most amazing looking cakes I've ever seen in my life. Nobody is asking how much it all cost or insinuating it could all have been made for half the price.

I didn't have to buy a present for a man, or his mother, I don't have to worry that his present will be shit, or that his present will spell out to me how little he cares, how little thought he gave it, I don't have to worry about how some man on the sofa is enjoying more than half of the freedom, more than half of the disposable income. I have security, job, house, general equilibrium! Teens are a bit entitled but .... again, less than a man Grin They couldn't compete. And they might move out one day! But not for another woman.

I just can't believe I spent so many years wanting a partner. So, if you're reading this wishing large chunks of your life away wishing you were married and ''normal'', stop!!! Take care of yourselves. Validate yourselves. Meet your needs.

I can't wait to just sit around listening to audibles after Christmas day.

Be as lazy as you want to be Wine

OP posts:
Iamtooknackeredtorun · 24/12/2020 23:25

Nearly 50 and happily single. When the children asleep I enjoy the peace and quiet of a perfectly still house. I fill my non-working non-parenting time doing things I like without any guilt or obligation. There's nothing I miss about being in a relationship

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