Just to balance things out, a thread for those of us who remain fully-functional human beings despite not being joined at the hip to someone else.

Haha. I've been contemplating starting a thread called Tell us about the worst breakup you ever had, or some such thing.

I was a fully-functional singleton for some months, but it's good fun being regularly joined at the hips to someone else again now.

Rogin, go away and join one of the threads for smug people who are in a relationship. This thread should be strictly for singletons only.

Of course - an honorary singleton is still a singleton.

My wife ran off with my best friend. And I really, really miss him.

Why don't you come on over Valerie.

I should have read Nishlord's advice before making the mistake of moving in with someone I'm helplessly in love with who thinks of me as a friend.

This is rubbish, because of
a) the inevitable frustration
b) having to deal with her boyfriend
c) any other girls I meet failing to match up.

Obviously sharing a house with the most wonderful person in the world has its upsides too, but it's not great for my romantic life.

And now I can't move out without leaving her in the lurch, so I'm just stuck with the situation.

And now I can't move out without leaving her in the lurch, so I'm just stuck with the situation.

People have to find new flatmates all the time. And I'm afraid the only way to deal with being in love with someone you can't have is to get the hell away from them, sharpish.

Etienne that is a terrible terrible situation.

For a blog called todger talk with a section called manbits, Nishlord's blog gets a lot of comments from female posters.

Etienne, that sounds shit. You have to move out for you're own sanity, hearing them shagging would be enough to make me go round the bend.

It does sound rubbish. Is it one of those situations where the boyfriend is also a really great bloke and it would be terrible for you to mess up their relationship in any way?

blameless, actually the real complicating factor is that she can't really find someone else suitable because she's supposed to be moving to London to be with her bloke, when she can find a job there. So I'm in the invidious position of hoping that either they split up, or hurry up and move in together so I can get on with my life!

Liquidator, thankfully I've never heard them shagging (bedsprings a couple of times, but that could be something else) otherwise I think I probably wouldn't be able to handle it. Plus I get the satisfaction of assuming from not hearing anything that he's probably rubbish.

DSS, actually he's a nice guy, but he's a bit boring. Better than any of her exes, but she deserves better.

Oh man, find a new place to live immediately. Don't worry about inconveniencing her. You could be hanging around there for another year if you don't act now.