I find it challenging, because I'm not living alone by choice. I miss having my wife and kids around, and I even miss my dog. I'm living in a little rathole apartment in a city, and I hate cities. I'm a country boy - I own 17 acres on a dirt road up in the hills with some of the best deer hunting in Ohio.

I'm alone now because I just came off a roughly 4 month mania when I decided that leaving my wife and kids for an old lover would be a good idea and would make me happy for the rest of my life. She left me for reasons of her own, and now I'm stuck here by myself because my wife and kids don't want me back, at least not yet. We're working toward reconciliation, but it is a long slow process.

There are a few advantages - the place stays clean, it's quiet, if I put something down it's still there when I come back for it - but on the whole I'd rather be back at my real home with my family.