Anybody else unhappily single and fancy a little group moan?

[SurlyCue]

I am. Single 5 years with brief 4 month relationship ending a couple of months ago. Would just like to meet someone i can rub along nicely with. Tried OLD a few years ago but too many wrong'uns to wade through to find the decent ones.

Anyone else feel like wallowing?

Hello, can I join you if I am half happy being single and half not?

broken (your name says it all! )

Yeah the more the merrier! I suppose i'm half happy/half not too really. I'd like to meet someone but last relationship really showed me that i am firmly attached to my independence.

41-yr old guy, single 5 years, haven't had a date in 4. Did OLD for years (never again), joined umpteen clubs, new events, all the things everyone says. Hardly ever meet any single women. Wallowing with you.

Yeah, I'll have a wallow with you all

Two years single now. I'm 41 with 3 kids. And I'm overweight. I'm invisible to men. I've dabbled in OLD too. Dear God, what a joke that is. I get cut and paste messages from lots of men in the USA and Europe (I'm in the UK ffs) and the men I've messaged have rejected me because I have kids - despite them having kids themselves!

I like someone I work with. We get on well, have lots in common - and he fancies my friend who he's spoken to for five minutes once.

I despair, honestly.

52 year old lady. Again, half happy half not being single. OLD awful. Am destined to die alone with cats!! (I haven't got a cat yey though).

So how are we all spending our saturday evening? I washed out a kitchen cupboard, cleaned all the appliances i dont use and sold them on FB so at least I'm £20 up now watching pitch perfect.

I like someone I work with. We get on well, have lots in common - and he fancies my friend who he's spoken to for five minutes once.

Oh thats painful! Ive been there. Its horrible.

Pretty productive Surly.

I ate ice cream in front of the best song of the 80s programme.

2 cats here

Even sadder than that, a guy I have had one date with texted to ask if I was out at 10.30pm. I said yes!

Oh i forgot that was on learn was it any good?

No second date on the cards with him?

Ice cream here too. And Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so I can drool over Xander Angel.

Three cats! But I had them all with my ex so that doesn't count, right?

I watched 30 Rock on Amazon Instant Prime and felt that I was just like Tina Fey's character but without the amazing writing talent. Sigh...

How sad and awful. On my own. Wallowing with no sleep. Feel like am going to die alone.

I would have loved to have watched that 80s programme with someone and reminisced and had a good laugh about it.

I find it difficult to find the time to see someone regularly around my children.

Same here learn. What age are DC?

12 and 9, with me all the time.

What about yours Surly?

Also last boyfriend seemed to really struggle with the fact that my DC took up so much of my time he has no DC but i assumed he understood when i said "i can only see you every other saturday and even then there are no guarantees" he said he got it but in reality he didnt. He got very frustrated when i didnt have time to chat at 7pm or when i couldnt come out on a thursday night- "cant you get a babysitter?" Nope, i cant. Like i told you.

6 and 10. They go to their dad's every other saturday for the night although he seems to like to take a few months off from that schedule without warning every now and again so i can never depend on it happening.

Count me in. Still going through the phase of thinking that OLD might solve this problem but experience so far suggests it wont. Was VERY excited about meeting an architect this weekend but yesterday he got in a strop with me because I made a joke in an email. Seriously. Loon.

I'm listening to Nick Abbot on LBC and cleaning my flat.

Yes, quite a bit of self-pity sloshing around here too.

I had a very close male friend who started regularly seeing a friend of mine through a shared hobby, and talking to me less and less. I found it hard, then he made me talk about it, and I told him how I felt. I basically was told he was sorry, but he didn't feel the same - he has lots of female friends and I'm just one of them (I sort of knew this, but the others all live miles away, so I never 'competed' with them), and he won't change his friendship with my friend because of how I feel.

We're still friendly, but things are obviously slightly strained. I want somebody I can have an emotional connection to and a hug from, knowing that I'm as important to them as they are to me.