"I've not even had love for 9 years"

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"My 2 little angels are only 7 and 8"

I think you have.. unless they are two virgin births!!

Some say:
"I'm sick of being single"
Other say:
"I'm sick of being a couple"

Couldn't it be that we are all sick of ourselfs?

Gawd thats deep man...

...or sick of each other

Once again its Christmas and i'm alone again.

And yes, i'm sick and tired of it.

hmm Im always single at Christmas for some reason (even if I've been dating in the year, which I was until a month ago).. so I learn to love the single Christmas.

Don't have to buy him a present (and men are hard to buy for).

Can watch Wizard of Oz or any such trash tv without him moaning or having the remote stolen.

Can make my way through a tin of Quality Street without being watched, with comments of "You'll get fat".

Don't have to visit his parents and can tell mine I'm quite happy at home with my tin of Quality Street and they will believe me. (But I can go to theirs if I really want to).

Have a single friend to stay over Christmas Eve, so we can laugh at said trash tv, cry over a sad Christmas movie (or a Strictly special) and eat said tin of Quality Street together and drink red wine.

you can still go to bars and not drink.
enjoy the music.
and if your gonna moan about not gettin anyone, then you wont get anyone.
no one likes a mard arse remember.
good luck tho.

"Weren’t you on Grumpy Old Women once?"

No Darkhouse, but trust a man to say that. There's me being all positive, and you have to bring it down to a negative. And I wasn't berating the opposite love either.. I was giving a positive spin on why you can enjoy Christmas as a single person (it works for both sexes but subsitute DAVE channel or F1 reruns for Strictly and Wizard of Oz).

And I edited the "in a relationship" bit out.. because I felt that wasn't fair.

I've had that sort of relationship you describe DH and its all great.. unfortunately they don't always last as long as you'd like.. and I for one wouldn't say I am sick and tired of being single when I only just came out of a relationship a month ago. And I've had two dates, so its all good lol

Exactly!

And if one leaves a relationship and wanders back into singledom taking something positive from the ended relationship with them, then they are better equipped to deal with the next relationship. I think that most people who take something positive from a relationship (rather than dwell on the negative) might be less likely to say "I'm tired of being single"?

(Despite my positive outlook this morning, I suspect that the large tin of Quality Street that Miss Cork Legs has hidden under her bed doesn’t have my name on it, and if she does intend to share it with me at some point over the festive season, I hope we won’t be peering over the lid of the tin at any Strictly specials )