I have always been single. I have two daughters and a partner though but we aren't married and so I guess I'm single, because if I wasn't I'd be married and I'm not. If you mean how long have you been without a partner in your life then it would be different. Can't work it out as too hot and have two cats on me leaving hairs everywhere.
8 months, but I do have a casual thing going off with someone I first met when I left school. I was with my ex for 9 years and it was a mistake from the start, a mistake I decided to carry on with as 'I'd made my bed'...I only started a relationship with him because I was 28 and had been pretty much single since I left school - my love life being entirely made up of brief encounters and very casual affairs. Family were starting to question if I had issues or not....9 years later I really wish at the time that I didn't care less whether I had or not. Much happier now!
More or less forever...never had a 'serious' relationship, never actually loved anyone etc..
It might not come to anything (it hasn't gone anywhere with me yet) but PlentyofFish.com; it's a free dating website (you've probably heard of it at some point already).
There's an option to upgrade, but you really don't need to. Unlike other dating sites, you can send (and receive) messages for free. I've been a member there (this time) since January 2014, and it's only recently that I've found people who will return my messages, I've signed up before, got nowhere, and gave up.
Neither of you have anything to lose by giving it a shot, right? - Hopefully you'll have better (and a lot quicker) luck than I.
I've been single for little over two months, having come out of a two-and-a-half year relationship. I've already had two people ask me since (heaven knows why!) and suspect a third might be trying to hint at me - I'm not sure though, I could be reading them entirely wrong.
I won't be wanting a relationship any time soon either.
I've always being single and I'm going to be 20 in a month, I'm not horribly ugly or anti social I've just never met anyone who id think I'd wanna spend my life with.
I've been pretty much continuously in a relationship for the last 30 years but not the same relationship. TBF the endings and beginnings have been quite seamless but then I suppose I was the one to end them so probably already reconciled to it ending when they did....at the same time also emotionally able to move on easily to a new relationship.
I've always being single and I'm going to be 20 in a month, I'm not horribly ugly or anti social I've just never met anyone who id think I'd wanna spend my life with.
That is what happened to me. You need to decide if you do want to share your life with someone, have kids etc and then go looking
Don't leave it too late, if you are alone too long you will find it hard to adjust.
Since I was born, so that'll be 1987. I'm 27 now, never been in a relationship, never had that opportunity of intimacy either. Woooo!! :-(
If it makes you feel any better I'm 27 as well and in the same situation. I'm in the process of improving my social skills (I was an unlikeable billy no mates loner at school and university, fell into severe depression a couple years back because of it and sought help).
I can't guarantee what will happen to me, maybe I will find somebody, at least I hope I can improve my social life at worst, but if I am to remain single, I'll have to learn to live with it.
Songwriting mainly but I have had a novel in the works for a long time and other ideas. Music is the thing for me to focus on cause it's more immediate. I may finish the novel by the time I'm 50...xD
The funny thing is, reading this thread has now actually made me more accepting of being single, I'm not sure why. Maybe because other people are as well, it's not a freak thing. I've got lots to be getting on with and travelling more is on the agenda.
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I'm not too fussed about it either way.
(ETA a brief couple of months with one bloke and a few dates in that time - so not sure if that counts. I count it as single)
Having read the topic title (and before reading the comments), I thought I'd have a victory in the bag here, but you have seemingly beaten me.
It might not come to anything (it hasn't gone anywhere with me yet) but PlentyofFish.com; it's a free dating website (you've probably heard of it at some point already).
There's an option to upgrade, but you really don't need to. Unlike other dating sites, you can send (and receive) messages for free. I've been a member there (this time) since January 2014, and it's only recently that I've found people who will return my messages, I've signed up before, got nowhere, and gave up.
Neither of you have anything to lose by giving it a shot, right?
So you've beaten Phoenix Lazarus as far as relationships go, though; If I may be so bold as to ask Phoenix Lazarus, would the friends with benefits apply to you also?
I won't be wanting a relationship any time soon either.
That is what happened to me. You need to decide if you do want to share your life with someone, have kids etc and then go looking
Don't leave it too late, if you are alone too long you will find it hard to adjust.
If it makes you feel any better I'm 27 as well and in the same situation. I'm in the process of improving my social skills (I was an unlikeable billy no mates loner at school and university, fell into severe depression a couple years back because of it and sought help).
I can't guarantee what will happen to me, maybe I will find somebody, at least I hope I can improve my social life at worst, but if I am to remain single, I'll have to learn to live with it.
I know exactly what you mean.
Songwriting mainly but I have had a novel in the works for a long time and other ideas. Music is the thing for me to focus on cause it's more immediate. I may finish the novel by the time I'm 50...xD
The funny thing is, reading this thread has now actually made me more accepting of being single, I'm not sure why. Maybe because other people are as well, it's not a freak thing. I've got lots to be getting on with and travelling more is on the agenda.
You've got time, man.
There's always one show-off