BARELY SINGLE
I have spent a shockingly large majority of the last seven or so years as someone’s girlfriend , since my first boyfriend in year 8. Some friends and I were discussing dating history and totalled up the number of months we had spent in relationships, and mine shocked me. What’s more, even in the time between there was always someone on my mind, someone I was pursuing or casually dating. Even in between relationships I was barely single. Dating and spending a lot of time as someone’s partner is certainly not inherently a bad thing, but I know myself, I know my heart, and I know this has happened for not the healthiest of reasons. Time Alone At the start of my last relationship I commented to friends what strange timing it was as I wasn’t looking for anything serious at the time. Of course, they swiftly reminded me of the number of people I had been on dates with in the months preceding it, that would strongly suggest otherwise. But that’s just dating? That’s different, r