How my feelings about being single ebb and flow

Or lessons from recording my audiobook...

Last week I began recording the audiobook for my book, Single. It was the first time in ages, I have read every single word in my book. There was also something about reading the words aloud in front of a microphone and with producers in the other room that made it more real. For that reason, I felt quite emotional during some of the audio recording. Today I am off to record the next chunk and will have to go back to the studio one more time. It’s definitely made it feel more real that the book is actually coming out and you’ll all be able to read what I’ve chosen to include.

One thing that stuck out to me was how much my feelings around being single have ebbed and flowed. I have been through a full spectrum of feelings about it over the course of the years and I realised, as I read my book out loud, that in the moment I always thought I would never feel another way about my relationship status. Sometimes I hated it. Sometimes I loved it. Sometimes I was indifferent. Sometimes I was co…