The Unexpected Joy of Being Single

was settling nicely into my thirties. I was dating a little but was not at all as consumed with it as I had been in my teens and twenties. The days of He didn’t call me today and it’s three pm – what does that mean?! were truly behind me. I realized that nothing was missing.’

they will never be mine, because people are not property.

be headed up by a married couple.

Hilda says that it’s hardly surprising that keenness, acceptance and approval are turnoffs, because I never experienced that from

We’d all be doing ourselves the biggest favour ever if we just let go of the need to Know.

never have to answer a text or phonecall asking me, ‘What’s for dinner?’ as if I am somehow in charge of dinner. Who made me the Mayoress of Dinner? I don’t recall running for that office.

We consciously or unconsciously don’t complete ourselves. Is it any wonder we then feel incomplete?

Dog-whistle politics are where a message looks or seems straightforward, non-offensive, innocent, but it packs a coded punch; it feels off, amiss, wrong to a subset of people. Like a dog whistle, not everyone can hear it, but it’s there. That’s how I felt. I felt that he was a surreptitious self-esteem squasher, but my examples were trivial and thr

wonder how many men think they’re frightened of commitment, simply because they’ve been told over and over that they’re going to hate