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Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! - March 23, 2026

I'm going to be 100% honest here...Reading between the lines of this post shows a lot of keywords that are dangerous to keep in your head. "Hot 1%", being surrounded by advice of "staying single", co…

r/datingoverthirtycomment3/23/2026
Life is too short to live in fear

Life is too short to live in fear — Life is too short to live in fear. The fear of saying the wrong things and earning their scorn. The fear of ~~asking for~~ loving too much and being branded 'suffocating' again. The fear of a co…

r/AnxiousAttachmentpost10/14/2025
31M, stuck in life due to toxic family environment – unsure about future, marriage, and purpose

31M, stuck in life due to toxic family environment – unsure about future, marriage, and purpose — I’m 31, living in India, working at an MNC, and come from a middle-class family in a tier-2 city. I have an older brother (5 years older), and my family situation has been very difficult for a long ti…

r/DecidingToBeBetterpost4/11/2026
31M, stuck in life due to toxic family environment – unsure about future, marriage, and purpose

31M, stuck in life due to toxic family environment – unsure about future, marriage, and purpose — I’m 31, living in India, working at an MNC, and come from a middle-class family in a tier-2 city. I have an older brother (5 years older), and my family situation has been very difficult for a long ti…

r/raisedbynarcissistspost4/11/2026
Help me to recognise my attachment style please!

This fits enough with AA I think. An avoidant would just breakup and run. You suffer and cry in the relationship and still stay (AA). Only once you're fully convinced it's misaligned, you leave. And b…

r/attachment_theorycomment9/2/2025
Life is too short to live in fear

Text of original post by u/DizzySkin7066: Life is too short to live in fear. The fear of saying the wrong things and earning their scorn. The fear of ~~asking for~~ loving too much and being brand…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment10/14/2025
Here's to an emotionally secure 2026! 🥳🎈🎉😎 (open thread)

I will focus on building other forms of relationships (self, spirituality, and new deeply aligned friendships). Getting love and security outside of romantic context. Staying single all year, solo dat…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment1/2/2026
How do you find a lover who also enjoys the sacred medicine?

I'll tell you this: it gets exponentially harder to find a partner if you want to share common ground in something that's rare. It's already hard to find someone you're genuinely attracted to out of…

r/Psychonautcomment3/7/2026
Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! - March 08, 2026

Depends. Do you feel comfortable giving up and staying single? Then give up. If you don’t feel comfortable enough - try something else.

r/datingoverthirtycomment3/8/2026
My desire for relationships disappeared after a narcissistic ex. Has anyone else experienced this?

Yeah, I used to think staying single for too long was embarrassing (ironically, I've never judged a woman for how long she was single for. I only judged myself for that). But now, I realize that the w…

r/NarcissisticAbusecomment3/11/2026
Found out my husband resents me a lot for my mental illness

I guess it's not clear from my post, but I would consider ending the relationship as a gift to him moreso to me. My guess is he would find a new relationship with a "normal" person fairly easily with …

r/CPTSDcomment3/16/2026
For those who have accepted / semi- accepted being alone... what are you filling your time with now?

I have an active full life,, refuse to be another man's "mommy"/overenabler and am independent. I realize will most likely be staying single long term. I am on the apps on and off, but not finding muc…

r/datingoverfortycomment3/17/2026
Anyone else feel like they’re going to be alone forever?

Yes, and I prefer to imagine it, and get back to enjoying my life as a single woman. I was planning on staying single after my finance died suddenly in 2022. I was in grief and shock. It was so painfu…

r/BreakUpscomment3/22/2026
Do people eventually want marriage/long-term partnerships, or is it mostly just dating at our age?

41f. I'm only interested in a long-term partnership, but living together is a separate decision. I'm also picky, not in terms of a conscious list I'm looking for but in the way I just don't develop ro…

r/datingoverfortycomment3/22/2026
My partner (f34) “quiet quit” our relationship and I (m37) need closure.

Genuinely batshit insane to read these comments. It's no wonder so many people are staying single. Just an onslaught of women defending cheating and manipulative behavior. Women who we all know would …

r/relationship_advicecomment3/22/2026
Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! - March 23, 2026

I'll believe it when I see it lol. Some people just prefer to be in a relationship 😂 good luck staying single!

r/datingoverthirtycomment3/23/2026
Decidedly Single?

Have to learn to love yourself before you can learn to love anyone else. And until I love myself I'm staying single. 

r/Codependencycomment3/28/2026
My wife (f38) wants me (m42) to be okay with her going speed dating with friend?

Staying single and dating is where it’s at. No messy divorce, no alimony and no division of property. Free and easy sleep… After all, why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?! lol 🐮 😃

r/relationship_advicecomment3/30/2026
Where do you even begin?

If you aren't willing to put photos up on a dating app because that's not how you were raised (not sure what that means in this context), then I guess in practice you have already decided you are stay…

r/datingoverfortycomment4/1/2026
Gray divorce, what do I do now?

73y, divorced at 36y have never missed being married… my ex cheated on me, that caught me totally unprepared… Didn’t take long to fully appreciate being single … have never regretted staying single

r/Divorcecomment4/3/2026
31F Marriage Timing Prediction

Ketu in your 7th is why it feels like it'll never happen — it creates detachment or near-misses even when things get close. but your 7th lord Venus is conjunct Jupiter and Rahu in lagna so marriage is…

r/vedicastrologycomment4/4/2026
Do exes come back if they started dating a month or two after the breakup and then that relationship doesn’t work out?

Same I’m doing the exact same big bro mean while…yeah never mind she don’t win she thinks she has but she don’t nothing will ever last for her…and I’m after someone I can spend rest of my life with an…

r/ExNoContactcomment4/5/2026
'Dating' IRL

"I probably should add, that I live in a rural area where there are literally no single men between the ages of 18-70." I (51M) am also in a rural and isolated area. There's a city of about 35-40k…

r/datingoverfortycomment4/5/2026
Why Don't Quality Men Seem To Want To Be With Me?

I think most people in dating are seeking some kind of validation. If a quality man likes you, then you’re a quality woman. If an attractive women likes you, then you’re an attractive man. At the en…

r/datingoverfortycomment4/6/2026
Waking up to a codependent marriage

This. My partner goes to a codependency group and several of the men have ended partnerships for this reason and they end up either begrudgingly staying single forever and relapsing into short term co…

r/Codependencycomment4/7/2026
r/Divorcecomment4/8/2026
2+ years on, still haven't gotten over my breakup

For me, it's always been to just to push through the overthinking and get back out there. Staying single leaves too much time to dwell. Even when I fill my time with activities, the down time fills w…

r/datingoverthirtycomment4/9/2026
2+ years on, still haven't gotten over my breakup

I think there's a certain amount of healing that comes from getting back out there. The majority of us here were wrong about finding our forever person. After two years, staying single might be doing …

r/datingoverthirtycomment4/10/2026
35 single F. What can you tell about marriage, meeting "the one" and life ahead?

you're not staying single. Mars in your 7th in its own sign delays marriage but it doesn't deny it, and you just entered Saturn mahadasha which rules your 5th house so romance is actually becoming a r…

r/vedicastrologycomment4/10/2026
Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! - April 11, 2026

One of my biggest regrets in life is not dating. I thought staying single was an accomplishment, but staying single is easy. Finding a partner is hard. It only gets harder too.

r/datingoverthirtycomment4/12/2026
What’s a small decision you regret almost every time?

Putting them before me (in dating) Giving chances to anyone (because I sympathised) Letting anyone access anyone to my heart (because I wanted to be chosen) Currently working on these while staying …

r/DecidingToBeBettercomment4/12/2026
30M Have been extremly unlucky in love so far :(. Would it be arranged marriage eventually

you're not staying single, Mercury as your 7th lord sitting in its own sign in the 7th is about as committed to marriage as a chart gets. the problem is Venus in 6th plus Mars-Rahu together in your 8t…

r/vedicastrologycomment4/12/2026
Why do people write "how is your day?" First or second message

Good luck staying single. Who cares what the first mesasage is? Get to meet f2f asap. Then decide. Does it take money time and effort? Yes. Will it be wasted most of the time? Yes. But all this judgem…

r/datingoverthirtycomment4/13/2026