My new approach to dates is less ‘help save me’ and more ‘come on board the loveboat, honey’
Despite having a blast the past few weeks, Stacey Duguid wonders if what she assumed she wanted might not be what she actually needs
5 June 2021 • 6:00am
"You can go for lunch alone, see an exhibition alone, dance naked in your kitchen alone"
Credit: Imogen Davies
When friends ask how I’m feeling, I tell them I’m lost at sea. For months I assumed this “lost” feeling was to do with being single in midlife. But it’s not. Feeling lost has nothing to do with being single – it’s to do with unhappiness more broadly. As 3am thoughts tumble through my mind like a tornado torturing me away from sleep, I often wonder if I’ll ever be happy again.