please empty your brain below

😔 Oh DG, I think this post is so sad. 😔
((((((You need a virtual hug))))))
Let’s show some love

(((((((((DG))))))))))
Thanks, but no need.
This was 20 years ago.
I hope you are as happy as you profess to be. Most choices in life (including the ones made for you, or when you decide not to choose) have their ups and downs.

Thanks for keeping us readers informed and entertained.
Happy anniversary DG:) Seems to me from your blog that you have a busy & interesting life. You have a wicked sense of humour but you don’t indulge in nastiness. You care about social justice. You don’t go for self pity when life (or your gas supply) gets difficult.

A sad life? - no, I don’t think so. Sometimes a bit lonely? - that’s normal, isn’t it?

Thanks for making me laugh so often & for all the interesting blogs.
You forgot one

Single - you get to spend time entertaining and informing a large online audience daily and be generally very respected. Happy (?) anniversary.
Such balanced views, you should apply to work at the BBC.
If I may offer a personal thought - Coupled: it's perfectly possible to feel just as lonely as when you were single.
I love the single life blog and glad its back! I agree with Toni's comment that it is not a sad life to be single, as your blog shows - you have a wide range of interests and such motivation to get out and find places to visit, to delve into the history of them and write so wonderfully afterwards (and take amazing photos). You have us all logging on to read your daily insights with great anticipation, which would be hard for you to do in coupledom. Thanks.
There are many pluses and minuses in both situations, but as long as you are happy in the situation you are in, none of them matter.

I bet you wouldn't have started this blog had you been married, so from a purely selfish point of view, happy divorceary!
I wish they were numbered points so I could just reply to each number. Most you have right, but some are wrong, keeping in mind what really long term relationships are like.

I feel so bad after reading your last line. I have been the victim of some and the perpetrator of others.
You have spent the past seventeen odd years in a relationship with the internet - producing various offspring, nurturing them from the newborns of 2002.
The grass is always greener on the other side, I'm sure you would find a relationship to be as satisfying as your life is now, just subtly different.
I'm curious (as my wife keeps telling me). What exactly happened at 7.15am on 3 Nov 1999? Fred Barker
As I hurtle towards my own personal decade of singledom (and it was a lifetime before that one brief hiatus) I find myself too often dwelling on the latter part of each couplet. But you're totally right about the first halves too - so thanks for posting this. I'm going to bookmark it for referring back to when life isn't quite so chipper...
Single: No one complains about your table manners.
Coupled: Someone puts you right about your table manners.
Single: Wishing you didn't come home to an empty house.
Coupled: Wishing the wife would go out shopping to give you an hours peace.
Actually, I believe coupledom is complete hell for quite a few who are in a couple trap! That's before we look at instances of domestic abuse etc. Sheds become very popular the older you get (especially if the household has others in it).
Darwin wrote a list comparing marriage against staying single - I was excited to see it at the National History Museum exhibition a few years ago.

His list also included having to visit two sets of family as a mark against marriage. May have been a factor in why he married his cousin.

As with any choice in life there's pros and cons to both options, and the important thing is finding the one thats right for you.
Time to reflect, but let this go DG the universe will sort its self out for you in the end. Do you crave being a 'couple' yet shy away some days? Do whats right for you
Is it me, or is it really hard to find a hot water bottle in the shops nowadays?
DG-Sorry you didn't find the right partner... I did and we had 50 great years together... then her health spiraled down and after three years she was gone... now 12 years later I still miss her. Lovers like that DO exist.
I thought that Squeezy Toy and the "we" on the trip to Denmark might have meant that that there was a diamondic duo. However the cooker and bath problems proved overwise.
"Coupled: You can have sex whenever you like."

Were you ever *really* in an LTR?
Almost the last words in Robert Burton's 1621 book The Anatomy of Melancholy were: "Be not solitary, be not idle".

But Dr Johnson later amended that to: "If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle."
According to Emma Watson, neither of you are single. You are "self-partnered".
Good grief.
Some people have "married" themselves in lavish ceremonies.










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