I'm now an Ordained Clergy Person of the Church of Spiritual Humanism! I can perform marriages and all sorts of other rituals.

I was thinking about being single. I used to think that loneliness was the worst thing about being single, but generally speaking, I'm not lonely. And if I get lonely from time to time, it's as much a factor of being away from family as it is a factor of being single. At holiday times I miss my family if I'm not there.

But I think the real enemy of single people is couples. Single people and couples don't mix well. Couples like to hang out with other couples. Single people don't get invited to a lot of things that couples do with other couples.

Many of my friends who are married or partnered I don't get to see unless the spouse/partner is off doing something else.

It took time to learn to enjoy doing things on my own, but the more I do it, the more I enjoy it. I'm really looking forward to traveling on my own next month.