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What’s Wrong with Being Single?

You might have a very valid reason why being on your own is a good thing, but…

Anna Simpson
3 min readOct 24, 2019
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You might have a valid reason why being single is ok. You have great things going on for you, like your career or your business. You have great friends, you go out, you have freedom, you can do what you want. And you pretend, everything is going well. You are a strong, self-sufficient and independent woman.

Besides, who needs a man to be happy? It is not the 19th century, after all.

But then there are lonely nights and lonely weekends. There are moments when you wish you had someone next to you: to love you, to adore you, to spoil you, to call you “babe”.

There are moments when you think, it would be nice to have someone to cuddle with, to watch a movie, cozily wrapped up in a blanket on a sofa together. It would be nice to have someone to kiss good morning and good night. It would be nice to have someone to make passionate love with not just random sex..

At the same time, you might persuade yourself, who needs this romantic crap and you put the mask of a strong independent woman back on.

However, it is not the romantic crap! It is our undeniable human need for love and belonging…

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Anna Simpson
Anna Simpson

Written by Anna Simpson

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