Being single has always had its pros and cons. Having freedom is great, but it gets a little lonely after a while. It’s nice to have someone to come home to every day, share our hopes and worries with, and who is there to support us when we need it.
At first, a lot of us are okay with being single. We embrace it and find it empowering. But after some time, we start to have more difficulty with being single. We don’t enjoy it as much as we first did, and eventually, we become fearful. We can have this fear for a variety of reasons. We fear that maybe we aren’t good enough, we can fear not finding the right person, fear that we found the right person and gave them up, or just simply fear being alone or abandoned.
Friends, family, and even society can compact this fear of being alone. It is normal for many families to ask if you are seeing anyone and try to push you to settle down and start a family. As a whole, there is a pressure that we need to complete certain goals by certain ages; get a job, get married, have children. Though more people are breaking away from the norms, it is still an underlying pressure or clock that affects a majority of people. Then we go on social media or visit friends and family, and we see them getting these life goals. We see them happy with someone they love and who loves them. We see smiling faces and all these images of a perfect life. And though…
