I keep reading articles that say certain things are red flags in relationships and wonder if they are targeted at youths with no adult boundaries and experience. Are you really that needy and lacking in confidence to follow this shit? It seems like we are brainwashing people into thinking certain…

A list of tiny things to appreciate. — Hot milky coffee sipped, enveloped within the folds of a blanket, fuzzy socks swaddling toes, steam warming the tip of your nose. The joy of those first slurps, a little too hot but perfect. Books, reading the synopsis, an overwhelming wave to devour in a long afternoon, tiptoeing into the…

Can we normalize alternative families? And alternative life choices? For our parents' generation being a single mother was abnormal, and often shamed. My childhood in the 1990s had smatterings of divorced parents. Still rare enough for us to notice kids from divorced homes. The kids born to my generation are…

Planning to be on your own doesn’t necessarily mean you plan to remain fiercely single, or staunchly on your own. It often simply means you’re taking control of what you have control over. Years ago I started planning my career, and eventually my business, based on the idea that when…

I am yet to have a successful relationship. Past relationships have never reached the one year mark, I have never lived with a man, never celebrated an anniversary, and never even got to the stage of a relationship where I wasn’t still questioning the others feelings and motives. Which says a lot about the men I’ve dated and the relationships I have allowed myself to be in! So after…

Happy Valentine’s for those going it alone, for those taking life on without an ‘other’. Power to those who work, freelance, and build businesses independently. Those who after the workday still manage to exercise, eat well and buy groceries. …

We’re not meant to do it alone. This knowledge has hit me like a brick to the face. It has changed my entire life outlook, my plans and my perspective. We are not meant to do it alone. Wow. Fuck. When I say I have just had this realisation I’m…

Online dating, face to face dating, blind dating. Oh how we hate it. I know even those of you who say you love it actually hate most aspects of dating. The endless swiping, generalised conversations, or conversations that get really deep really fast (not actually sure which is worse), the…

I recently had lunch with a friend, she asked about my dating life now I’d moved to Barcelona, and I told her how utterly dull yet eye wateringly frustrating it is. She then told me some of her friends where she lives in Ibiza treat dating as a numbers game…