Part two: There are some practical challenges to being single and living alone. Weekends for me are particularly difficult. I do try make sure I see a friend at least once over a weekend. If I don’t do that I can spend the 60+ hours between leaving work on a Friday and returning on Monday morning, with no quality interactions. My budget doesn’t allow me to invite more than a couple over for a meal or for more than an occasional coffee in town, so socialising as a means to bei

Having never been married, I have no idea what the blessings of married life are, but I could take some guesses. Also having never been married, I don’t know what the challenges of married life are. What I do know, is that singleness brings many blessings. I am free to choose what I want to eat for supper, and even to eat nothing at all if that is my fancy. As a single person who lives alone, I am free to dry laundry in the living room, make as much mess as I like when I cook