"You can be happily married and feel exhausted and lonely at times. You can be single and wish to have a partner while also having a really good life."...All of this. For some reason, I now have Robert Frost's "The road not taken" in my head...because I think that's part of it too. I know there's a single version of me out there somewhere...I'd love to meet her xo
We were actually asked by a paper to do a mother daughter agony column when Help Me! came out but we passed. She came on irelands biggest radio show with me and was brilliant. I’m sure she’d love to get more airtime! The world needs her!
Well after spending 11 years living alone, followed by 12 years living with a partner, I can concur.... both paths are great, both paths are hard - in more or less equal measure. It's just different types of great and different types of hard 😀
Brilliant article. Your book has arrived and I'm waiting for some space so I can read it in big chunks and not little bites as I just know that's what I'll want. I am divorced with 3 teenage girls and have struggled with my "status" mostly because other people want me to meet someone. But where I;ve landed is Single with Lovers after your last piece. Lover being someone I care about but don't want to live with or have too many rules. I always laugh that my perfect man doesn't live in Ireland so he's not involved in my weeks but we can have great weekends together. and you are so right..... every path has it's good and bad points. As Mark Manson talks about - you have to chose the set of problems you can most live with because nothing is problem free.
I am a single woman over 60, I sometimes drink too much and I am sometimes depressed, but it’s not because I’m single. It’s because of the way women are treated in this country. Some things would be easier with a partner, but I also am very aware that many things would be harder. After a lifetime of being a caretaker to a former husband and several children, I am happily selfish and alone right now. ❤️❤️❤️
"You can be happily married and feel exhausted and lonely at times. You can be single and wish to have a partner while also having a really good life."...All of this. For some reason, I now have Robert Frost's "The road not taken" in my head...because I think that's part of it too. I know there's a single version of me out there somewhere...I'd love to meet her xo
This is really brilliant! Thank you!
I wish I could afford to commission Mary Power to be The Shift’s agony aunt!
We were actually asked by a paper to do a mother daughter agony column when Help Me! came out but we passed. She came on irelands biggest radio show with me and was brilliant. I’m sure she’d love to get more airtime! The world needs her!
thanks so much for sharing, Jody.
Well after spending 11 years living alone, followed by 12 years living with a partner, I can concur.... both paths are great, both paths are hard - in more or less equal measure. It's just different types of great and different types of hard 😀
This is such a good takeaway. I feel relieved I’ve reached a point life doesn’t feel less if I’m alone .
Great read. Your mum’s hilarious. What she said reminds me of that Irish saying, “Expect the worst, hope for the best.” 😆❤️
Brilliant article. Your book has arrived and I'm waiting for some space so I can read it in big chunks and not little bites as I just know that's what I'll want. I am divorced with 3 teenage girls and have struggled with my "status" mostly because other people want me to meet someone. But where I;ve landed is Single with Lovers after your last piece. Lover being someone I care about but don't want to live with or have too many rules. I always laugh that my perfect man doesn't live in Ireland so he's not involved in my weeks but we can have great weekends together. and you are so right..... every path has it's good and bad points. As Mark Manson talks about - you have to chose the set of problems you can most live with because nothing is problem free.
I am a single woman over 60, I sometimes drink too much and I am sometimes depressed, but it’s not because I’m single. It’s because of the way women are treated in this country. Some things would be easier with a partner, but I also am very aware that many things would be harder. After a lifetime of being a caretaker to a former husband and several children, I am happily selfish and alone right now. ❤️❤️❤️