What it is about BEING SINGLE and/or LIVING ALONE that is so ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (276 of them)

Because it is actually a big relief not to have to worry about birth control - pills or condoms or icky IUDs and strange insertions. And I had forgotten until reading that thread. :-)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

you can still get pregnant, you know.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean there's flying sperm to watch out for. it's in the air, all around us. like the internets.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

DON'T GO IN THE SEA

― emsk, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i usually can think of something great about being single, but not really today.. im going through some weird annual 2-week period wherein i want a boyfriend. but it'll pass.

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

44) You don't have to worry about lying to anyone about your STD's.

― John Justen, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

It's called Spring, Mandee. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

BARTRIP Now THAT is OTM.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

You can go abroad for a year or two without the regrets, compromises, or trade-offs that you'd have if you were in a relationship. I'm traveling for a year on a fellowship after graduation, and that's fine; another friend of mine really wants to move to Europe, but her fiance says if she did he would have to leave her (I've just heard a rumor that they broke the engagement because she doesn't want to be a housewife yet, but I know they really love each other so I hope things work out); another friend is joining the Peace Corps and is probably going to break up with her boyfriend because of it. Single wins!

― Maria, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link

living alone: dancing around apartment half-naked to loud music while dishes from dinner fester in the sink

-- get bent, Monday, March 12, 2007 9:23 PM (1 month ago)

there we go

― river wolf, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

living alone = getting to leave from and return to an empty house each day. I don't know why I enjoy this so much and I assume it will change as I get older and become a sentimental middle-aged family man but for now it is TOPS.

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:29 (seventeen years ago) link

it's great that you enjoy it, i think most people would find it a problem rather than a plus!

― Maria, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link

ive lived by myself for 4 years

the novelty wears off

― the sir weeze, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link

You get the whole bed to yourself, and don't have to fight for the duvet.

This is so frigging otm. I tend to make awful *clicky dee clack* noises which obv pisses off/wakes up my husband. :-(

― nathalie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you take a football rattle to bed with you, nath??

― C J, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Alas, no, I do this with my troath apparently. I think I have some sort of *defect* (I can't breathe well through my nose) which causes me to make these weird sounds? I'm not sure.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link

CJ: you never made me that pie!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link

(Yes I just re-read this ENTIRE THREAD)

― Sarah, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I so DID make you that pie, Sarah! Except it wouldn't email its way to you properly, so I ate it instead.

― C J, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I was thinking over the weekend that if I lived alone, I simply wouldn't know what to do with all that free time.

― C J, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, we occupy ourselves somehow, never you worry!!

Admittedly I had the dullest weekend ever but that was due to being broke, not single :) I crocheted an awesome elephant!!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link

At the moment it's decent. I heart a tidy house and so I went on a cleaning rampage at the weekend.

This contentment could change at any moment depending on what horrors could trigger depression (a spoon in the knife compartment for instance)

― Ste, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Are we allowed a thread for being single but living with other people?

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I think we did that didn't we?

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link

2) You wash dishes and they STAY WASHED until you use them without anyone moving them about the house and hiding them

Quite a big deal. I washed all the wine glasses late last night after some friends had left; to my immense relief they were dry and clean in the cabinets.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

On living alone and What It All Means.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link

That Eric Klinenberg book is getting a lot of play and discussion around the moment. I should probably read it.

― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link

there was an article about it in my college alumni magazine - one of its findings is that being single/living alone is often really painful for women in their late 30s/early 40s. :/

― sarahell, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, dudes, stay out of relationships in case you can't walk away from a shit one? Good theory.

The ideal is to be with someone for the right reason.[1] However, it is better to be alone for the right reason, than with someone for the wrong reason.

[1] NB: My romantic history and relationship skills are so bad that I can't personally verify that being with the right person for the right reason is a Good Thing.

― Seraphim? I don't even know him! (j.lu), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

if i could afford to live alone, i would do so in a heartbeat. i think it makes total sense that more people are doing it.

― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link

Is that actually in the Klinenberg book, or in the discussion about it?

I'm in that gender and age bracket and I can no longer even contemplate the idea of living with a partner.

What makes life painful or not is having friends to hang out with should we choose to, not having some stinking man taking up space in my flat.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

i don't have to share my onion rings with anyone.

downside, there's no one to share my onion rings with.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 14:27 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this thread makes me want to VOMIT!
― blueski, Thursday, 1 March 2007 14:28 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That'll be the onion rings, then.
― Forest Pines, Thursday, 1 March 2007 14:31 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 01:57 (nine years ago) link

One FANTASTIC thing about being single is that when you make up your mind, you can move forward and act. No protracted discussions, compromises, sudden dramas, impasses, miscommunications, or other folderol. You decide and *bang* you're good to go.

^ Spoken as a man whose 30th wedding anniversary recently came and went.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 02:14 (nine years ago) link

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.