Hi girls (and guys), to anyone who may want to answer.
Just thought I would ask: How important do we think having a partner in our lives is?
Hi adellevenn
How are you? I was wondering what your own response to the question would be?
I think being in a good relationship with a partner is a fantastic thing, but many relationships are not briliant and getting involved with the wrong partner is disastrous although many of us have done it. I agree with Bubblegum that we can each be "complete" in ourselves and then if we meet someone we want to be with, then fine, but it is fine to be on our own too.
Bubblegum, hope your daughter feels better soon (and it's not infectious 
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Awww, hope she's soon better bubblegum.
Having had a b/f after my divorce, I now know that life is far less complicated being single.
So my answer is no, I don't think it's important to have a partner in my life.
I don't think it's important either to have a partner. I've been on my own for 8 and a bit years, and I don't miss being in a relationship at all. I'm concentrating on bringing my son up, and that's the most important thing to me. I don't go out looking for anyone, but if someone came along, I wouldn't immediately dismiss the idea, but I'm more than happy being on my own.
Bubblegum, I hope your daughter is ok. Keep the bucket handy, so hopefully there won't be a trail for you to clean up, should it be a bug or something. Awww bless her, it's awful when they're poorly isn't it?
She must be ill, we went out for breakfast and she refused even ice-cream and just asked for a bottle of water which she drank and then promptly threw back up. She's asleep behind me on my bed now. She's not much of a complainer really and rarely gets ill and when she does she doesn't make a fuss, unlike her brother who demands medical attention at the slightest, he was familiar with the word hypercondriac when he was about two : )
Awww. Sleep is good.
Typical man hehe. She probably has a bug or something, so watch out for your son and yourself of course. I wish her better soon.
You guys sound like you are fulfilled in by being single, I was just wondering because there is so much on the news right now about how the 'two parent family' is better. Especially since the conservatives have come in.
Also with the new benefit cuts I have spoken to so many other single women who feel this is another way of pushing them into a relationship. Do you guys agree?
I don't agree with the new benefit cuts, but it certainly wouldn't and won't push me into a relationship.
I'm not quite sure I feel fulfilled being single, its more a case of life is simpler this way?
I certainly wouldn't be pushed into a relationship either because of changes in the benefit system.
I'm not quite sure what the government are hoping to achieve - perhaps they're too busy trying to address all the media issues.
I don't want one, my life is full as it is, dealing with my kids, in any free time I have I just want to relax and do my own thing not deal with yet another persons needs, want's e.t.c
Not that I begrudge doing all that for my kids, I love it and get all the satisfaction and personal gratification and comfort and love I need from that relationship.
I don't feel lacking in any way being single, I know lots of people who do though. Popular culture teaches us that we are not complete unless we have a partner a job and lots of plastic and electronic 'things' it's perfectly possible to be happy with out all of it.
I don't see how a partner can be 'important' unless you rely on them in some way or other for something somehow. Better to be a complete whole person in your own right rather than be at the fickle whims of someone else you've become reliant on in some way through ideals such as love and commitment and such.
And I've just spent the last half an hour cleaning up sick, my daughters, she woke me up saying daddy I feel sick and then proceeded to be sick in a trail to the bathroom : )
She relies on me for love and comfort and support (and cleaning up sick) but she'll grow out of it and I hope she doesn't grow back into it with someone else when she's grown up, I hope she grows up to be a strong independent self sufficient person that doesn't need someone else to be 'complete'