People meet at work. They meet at conferences. They meet on planes, trains and buses. They meet through friends, they meet at bars. They meet on the actual street sometimes. It’s endless, and if there are endless ways people come together, maybe that knowledge can help single people let go a bit. Maybe we’re not as in control as we thought we were,

the amount of time we’ll be single. But we’re allowed to recognise that those two things aren’t correlated at all. Relationships happen, love happens. We can’t control, plan or cause these things with all of our toiling away in the dating space.

whatever comes your way, you know you can walk away.

because I lived alone, had money to spend and always demanded what I wanted.

have stuff to do; not getting annoyed when they say they don’t want a dessert and then eat yours; letting go the fact that they didn’t sweep the floor when they said they would sweep the floor.

ninety-two undergraduates who had experienced a recent romantic break-up reported, on average, five positive types of personal growth that they thought might improve their future romantic relationships. These ranged from boosted self-confidence to learning how to be a better partner and, perhaps most crucially of all, how to choose

What makes non-sexual intimate relationships so great is that they don’t have the labels and expectations that society places on other relationships. You can map and feel your way through a friendship as you please without turning it into a performance. Nobody is pressuring you into making colossal life choices together, and you don’t have to

Because it’s a truth universally acknowledged by all women that men, marriage and motherhood is an absolutely exhausting, draining and tiring endeavour. But we don’t talk about that. The realities of maintaining a relationship, household and family are still brushed under the carpet and hidden behind closed doors while we continue to tell women

Pain is never fun to go through, but we grow the most when we are uncomfortable.