If you are single, for whatever reason other, have you accepted it?

[Parksad]

It’s that pondering time of year again!

My dh died nearly 5 years ago now, and I will never be in a relationship again. I mean I suppose I might if one came knocking at my door, but I’m certainly not intending on looking for one.

So it’s my own choice that I will remain alone (that makes it sound as if I could snap my fingers and find a man just like that if I wanted! Don’t mean it like that at all). But I still feel sad that that particular aspect of my life is over.

Does that make sense? And does anyone else feel the same?

So, yes. I've kind of accepted being single.

@happychristmasbum

Very happily single and choose to continue to be single.

I have been married and divorced twice, and am so much better suited to not being in a romantic relationship. I am just so much happier and at peace.

So no, I don't "accept" it - I actively choose it.

This

yes, I'm 51 now. I certainly will not ''look''.
That would be draining and fruitless and I know from my early forties that looking is what made me unhappy, not being single. Single very much feels like default to me. Factory Settings. I completely accept that this is my normal now.

I spent most of my adult life single and whilst I loved my own company I desperately wanted what everyone else had, a relationship. Am now separated after a 10 year marriage and am resigned to spending the rest of my life single as it took me so long to find the loser I was married to I will never meet anyone again. I am good at being single and am resigned now to this life. However I'm very sad that I'll never experience one thing, that is someone who really cares about me and who would do anything for me. I've never had that and now never will. I am trying to be happy and embrace my future as forever single.