Empowering women to feel comfortable with making the decision on whether being single is right for them and with ways to enjoy being single
It’s a shame that so many people view relationships as the best part of life. Being single allows you to experience so much that is often simply not possible when subjected to the financial and emotional pressures of supporting and maintaining a relationship. Far from being a temporary state that merely fills the inconvenient bit in between relationships, this time should be used to grow and evolve beyond the realms of those consumed and caged by societal expectations. Being single can be the most magical, wonderful time of your life. Here’s why...
Websites Offering Support:
Together Friends
If you want to find some other female friends: Together Friends can help you to make new friends by putting you in touch with like-minded women who share the same aspirations or live in the same area.
It is a friendship/companion website, not a dating site, where women can connect on line and make friends, based on location, age or interests.
By linking you to other women, you can find a friend to go to the theatre with, go dog walking with, or have a coffee with. If you need a travel companion, they can help with this too.
Members can meet up as a group as well as one to one. Clubs, events and ‘eventfriend’ all allow members to meet others in their local area.
Relate
have resources and someone you can talk to if you are single and don’t feel happy or comfortable in this place. Relate is the UK’s largest provider of relationship support.
- Read Learning to be single and happy
- Try a free Live Chat with a Relationship Counsellor
- Call 0300 100 1234 to find your local Relate Centre
Psychology Today – 8 Reasons You Might Still Be Single
A useful article if you want to understand a little psychology on yourself and consider some reasons why you might be single: What are the internal challenges that keep you single?
Books on this subject:
The Single Woman’s Sassy Survival Guide: Letting Go and Moving On
Mandy Hale is affectionately known around the world as “The Single Woman™.” In this book, Hale covers the five major areas of life that we often find ourselves needing to let go of: Relationships, Friendships, Jobs, Opportunities, and Grievances. How are we going to do it? By examining the five benchmarks for letting go and moving on: the Who, the What, the Why, the When, and the How. At the end of each chapter, you’ll review the Five Fabulous Finds from that section to take away as daily affirmations, pick-me-ups, or sassy reminders to get you off of “What Might Have Been” Highway and back on the road to letting go and moving on.
The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships
Although originally written for married couples, its concepts have proven applicable to families, friends, and even coworkers. The premise is simple: Each person gives and receives love in a certain language, and speaking it will strengthen that relationship. For singles, that means you can:
- Understand yourself and others better
- Grow closer to family, friends, and others you care about
- Gain courage to express your emotions and affection
- Discover the missing ingredient in past relationships
- Date more successfully
and more
Whether you want to be closer to your parents, reach out more to your friends, or give dating another try, The 5 Love Languages(r) Singles Edition will give you the confidence you need to connect with others in a meaningful way.
“Nothing has more potential for enhancing one’s sense of well-being than effectively loving and being loved. This book is designed to help you do both of these things effectively.” Gary Chapman
Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After
Drawing from decades of scientific research and stacks of stories from the front lines of singlehood, Bella DePaulo debunks the myths of singledom—and shows that just about everything you’ve heard about the benefits of getting married and the perils of staying single are grossly exaggerated or just plain wrong. Although singles are singled out for unfair treatment by the workplace, the marketplace, and the federal tax structure, they are not simply victims of this singlism–single people really are living happily ever after.
Living Alone and Loving it
has in it Feldon’s secrets for living alone and loving it. Prescribing antidotes for loneliness, salves for fears, and answers for just about every question that arises in an unpartnered day, she covers both the practical and emotional aspects of the solo life, including how to:
• Stop imagining that marriage is a solution for loneliness
• Nurture a glowing self-image that is not dependent on an admirer
• Value connections that might be overlooked
• Develop your creative side
• End negative thinking
Whether you are blessed with the promise of youth or the wisdom of age, Living Alone & Loving It will instill the know-how to forge a life with few maps and many adventures.
How To Get What You Want And Want What You Have: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Personal Success
Combining Western healing techniques with Eastern Meditation, Gray presents an innovative and proven method to become happy, confident, and at peace through his five steps to personal success.
This personal development book shows you how to: *Identify and take responsibility for the blocks to your personal success. *Understand your soul’s desire *Release negative emotions *Identify needs and take action *Decide what you want each day and put your life together in order to achieve it.
John Gray’s book allows you to acknowledge, forgive and transcend the pain of the past in order to recognise and achieve your soul’s desire.
Going Solo
In 1950, only 22% of adults were single. Today, more than 50% of adults are. Though conventional wisdom tells us that living by oneself leads to loneliness and isolation, most solo dwellers, compared with their married counterparts, are more likely to eat out and exercise, sign up for art and music classes, attend public events and lectures, and volunteer. Drawing on over three hundred in-depth interviews with men and women of all ages and every class, Eric Klinenberg reaches some startling conclusions about the seismic impact solo living is having on our culture, business and politics.
Videos on this subject:
Searching for love to escape ourselves | Hayley Quinn
Love, sex and dating are often venerated as ‘the ultimate goal of life’. However how much of our quest for love is about avoiding being with ourselves? About facing reality? About creating our own direction? And in running away from ourselves in love, do we ultimately avoid the work needed to return to selfhood that will actually bring us happiness.
An advocate of real life dating skills she’s used her websites (http://www.hayleyquinn.com[hayleyquinn.com]), and her online member’s clubs to show people that there’s more to life than meeting someone than Tinder.
