Can YOU live without a PARTNER in LIFE?

I married a wonderful man very young. The only thing he did wrong was to die too young. I have been alone for almost 25 years. I haven´t found another person such as him. It is not a matter od deciding rationally whether I want to stay single or have a partner. Things happen. Or don´t.

We had a friend who was single and very happy not to have a partner. He had very good friends and he was happy being single. We are not all the same.

I am happily married now. However, I've been in some less pleasant relationships. I was third-time lucky with my husband as he was my third long-term relationship. Before I met my husband, I'd come out of a bad relationship. I hadn't spent much time as a singleton before. This time, I made a choice to enjoy being single. I lived quite happily without a life partner. Then I met my now husband entirely unintentionally He'd been living a happy single life before then as well! I think some people do need a life partner but I found that I only thought I did until I learnt that I didn't.

I think people who claim they are happy without a life partner are lying to themselves. People need people. Everyone needs someone. Even loners and introverts get lonely and want company. Saying you're happy alone, is one of the biggest conterdictions a person can make about themselves. I am an introvert and a bit of a loner, too. However, I'm happily married. Being open to relationships just shows you're waiting for the right person to come along and won't settle.

I don't mind being alone. I don't need my husband, I want him in my life

I can live without a partner..I came to deal with difficult people before and I am really afraid of being able to meet another one.. But I am not closing my door too..

I grew up an only child. I was lonely a lot. Then I got married and had two children. I loved that time in my life even though there were many challenges and we ended up divorced. Our divorce happened at the same time that my youngest moved out. It was a very lonely time, and I was not sure I would be able to do life alone. But that was 24 years ago, and I am still living on my own. Now in the early senior years, I think about the idea of marrying again. But then I think about new in-laws, their children and grandchildren, my children and grandchildren. And at that point I do not think I would want to go through all of those situations again, What I would prefer is companionship with anyone who just wants to hang out, go out and do things together. Just friendship and fun. Nothing physical or romantic at all. Relationships are difficult enough as it is, but doing it all over again with another person's other family, and then being compared to the previous wife/mom. Not for me.

I do have some friends like that . . . and they say they are perfectly happy. One friend I think of says he is not a commitment person, regarding people anyway. He likes only to be able to take care of himself and not have to answer to anyone. He can eat, sleep, go wherever he wants, etc on his own time. But I know he is also cheap - he likes not having to pay for anyone else .

I think you can be happy without being in a relationship but when you are in a relationship you feel things that make you wish not to be single again it is like if something good happens in your life you feel happy but if you have someone to share that good thing with, it becomes so much better i hope when you meet someone, that this person makes you very happy

I'm doing it just fine.

I'm okay with living alone.

People are different. Some are happy being single, some are not. If you are happy being single, why not. Not all who have partners in life are happy.

It's all about individual choices. The most important thing is that without a partner or with a partner, you remain happy with yourself.

That's some deep question and it reminds me of manga that i started to read, unfortunately it is ongoing. it is called I have no intention of dating i respect people who are single and satisfied inside. i wish i was one of them. i am single but not satisfied with my future, rather, a few job oppotunities. in this age, i am feeling like a man in the 1950s, if i don't have a good job or job, who would want to have anything with me... i've been throgh blind dates recently and guys just talk about jobs; some eventually talk about their exes and such, which is a red flag for me. i wanted someone to love me because of me and when i look through many events in my life so far, i handled them alone so, sadly, i am used to that feeling. i don't like being alone but i am tired of working so hard to find someone. old people say, love will come around. i would like to experience that but i am not sure anymore. when i listen to some chinese drama songs, i like how people want to be together until their head turns gray. since many here are bald or half bald, i don't even have a right for that wish i guess me and love go seperate ways