Why I’m glad I live on my own at the moment:

I’m generally very happy living alone. I have a very active social life, but equally enjoy being on my own and having the freedom to do as I please. I very rarely feel ‘lonely' and if I do, it doesn’t take me long to bounce back and realise how many friends I have around me.

Also, I’ve never been one to have a ‘best friend’ or one single ‘close friend’. I am blessed to have an overflowing handful of very close friends. None that I would call a 'best friend', as I’m not sure I could choose between them anyway; they’re all fantastic for very different things and in their own way. Anyway, I have always had the tendency to feel a bit ‘smothered’ when somebody wants (what I would consider) ‘too much’ from me and I am a fiercely independent woman, who tends to be very self-reliant (sometimes, to my own detriment). However, when the shoe is on the other foot, I am absolutely the first person to step up when I am needed and am happy and honoured to help someone in need.

So, I have been thinking how I would be coping if I was stuck in my flat with someone right now. Not very well, I imagine. I am struggling with the fact that my home is now my workplace. Or is my workplace my home?  I am not sure. The lines are all very fuzzy. I am extremely fortunate that I have a separate room to work in and call my ‘office’ (it’s a spare room/junk room). I think I would go crazy if I had to work from the room I sit in to watch TV, or the room I sleep in. And if there was someone else here; the same face, the same voice, the same smell…. there would perhaps be a murder.

When I have been in relationships, I quite like it if they live a little bit further away. I miss them when I can’t see them, but I’m always glad when they have gone home and left me in My Space. I don’t know if this will ever change and many people have suggested that I just haven’t found ‘the right one’. Hmmm.

So, when you feel sorry for me for living alone, don’t worry. For me, this is absolutely fine and probably ideal at this time.

I miss my friends. I miss my colleagues. Video calls and FaceTime are not the same. I miss hugs. But I am, at this time, glad that I live alone.