Suddenly Single Life... Day 1 !

Ok… I feel the need to start this blog with a confession. I am not ‘suddenly-single’! I have been single for 6 years, 10 months and about 16 days actually. During that time I have hit hundreds of high and lows… of which there were many which has made me fairly qualified to talk about life ‘on the single shelf’. Very soon after the break-up of my marriage, I realized that it was really very simple – there were only two choices… up or down. Down was not an option as I was already as far ‘down’ as you could possibly get so up was the only way. I developed both short and long term ‘plans’ to drag me up from the depths of depression and looking back, all these experiences have made me the person I am today. I may not be 50% of a couple but I have lived to tell the tale and although I’ve laughed and cried (oceans of tears) along the way, I now truly believe that being single is not the end of the world. It’s just a phase and we all have choices and resources to make that phase as good as it can be. I decided to create suddenly-single because I wanted to try and help others who had been in as desperate a place as I was, and to try and bring some element of humour back into the lives of very sad suddenly singletons. I know there are thousands of you who will have stories to tell, and messages of hope and inspiration that will help anyone who has been dumped, ditched or divorced and I really hope you will share these on this site. It’s not absolutely essential to have a ‘partner’ to live Happily Ever After….live for today and you never know… tomorrow could be a whole lot better!