[Homeira]

And how do you feel about that? Sad, relieved, content, lonely? It seems to me that a lot of people with MI are living alone. Also, why are you single? Just curious...

[kaliope]

i have been alone for so long i cant even remember! it seems like forever! but i think it has only been around 11 years. i really like being alone being able to make my own decisions, only having to take care of myself, doing anything i want anytime i want....it is total freedom. every once in a blue moon i think it may be nice to have someone but then i think of how i would have to have dinner at normal times, share the tv, share the bed and i am just not willing to give those things up so the thought goes away.

there are several reasons i am single. FEAR and old messages.

mom drilled it into me that since i am fat, no man would ever want me, so i just assume that, even though i have lost 60 pounds, i am still an XL, so feel i would be undesirable to men. though i did get invited out to coffee by a client yesterday...lol

my first and last two long term relationships were abusive. i have a bad picker. i totally fear that if i were to go out there and get into another one, it would just be a repeat of the same old stuff. i just attract bad men.

[LDB1]

I'm alone by choice. I just don't feel up to the effort it would take to be in a relationship. I don't think anyone would enjoy living with me and my eccentricities and I don't feel like living up to someone elses expectations.

I have an X-GF who would like to get back together, she knows my diagnosis, but when we talked about it she said "I can help you change". That was the end of that.

[HALLIEBETH87]

27 and single.

yep.

another single person here

[JumpingJacks]

I'm single and live alone. I'm 30 years old and have dated a few people seriously, been engaged twice and lived with a couple people but I'm the happiest I've ever been single. People don't understand me and get upset by the mood swings and I can deal with it better on my own with medication and my doctor and therapist. I have a dog which helps A LOT and I get lonely sometimes but overall I can't see myself in a relationship any time soon.

[StillLeftBehind]

Now I am thanks to BP.

[Lonely Starseed]

31 single

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[furiousfever]

I'm 30 and single, a year out of a nine year relationship that ended because of my spinning, obsessive nature and reckless, destructive anger. I'm not excited to be single. I'm more stable when I have someone to care for/share things with, but hell, I've learned a ton this year. Maybe at some point I'll figure out how to navigate my issues entity putting someone out. I have the sweetest dog in the world, but I would love to have a human to share things with. I also dream about having children and am not sure I wasn't to go it alone.

I've been single for 30 years. Before that i was married for ten. I'm so glad to be away from my x and his suffocating family. I got a dog recently, too, and she is a big help. I enjoy the freedom and spontaneity.

[Moogieotter]

I like that many of you are mentioning how helpful dogs are to you. I got a boston terrier in 2013, and omg has she been wonderful for me. Talk about routine help - I get up every morning to take her for a walkie and get fresh air. So good for my head!

[furiousfever]

Originally Posted by Moogieotter

I like that many of you are mentioning how helpful dogs are to you. I got a boston terrier in 2013, and omg has she been wonderful for me. Talk about routine help - I get up every morning to take her for a walkie and get fresh air. So good for my head!

They're the best darn listeners too!

[aged2324]

Yep single and grateful right now

[Ad Intra]

22 and single
I hate it, but I have two really close friend so that makes up for it for now. I'm just afraid of being alone.

[Justugh]

i am single so the madness ends with me i got the short drawl in the genetic lotto in my family my older brother married a lady had a kid and seems to be fine nothing like i was nor my little brother

plus honest it would take a saint to live with me let alone want to marry me ...and one to never want kids or to adopt (make a great uncle but a father all the time the kid would be little messed up )

the genetic madness of me ends with me i would not wish my life on my worst enemy

[Blitter2014]

I lost my first marriage because my ex didn't want to deal with me. I was obsessive, compulsive, needy and unstable. I was single for 4 years before meeting someone who was facing a illness worse than mine. We sort of took on each other, and found that caring for each others needs made us feel better individually. It sounds kinda sad, but it took someone broken to take on me, another broken individual. I consider myself one of the lucky ones, as I am way more stable and have reason to live while I have someone in my life.

[ArielHoney]

I'm single because I had something good, but ended it. It was going to well. I was scared something was soon to go wrong, so I ended it before it could. I also needed change. It's also hard enough to keep myself happy, or try, how could I do that with someone else? He also could not understand any of my problems, so I couldn't really talk to him, so what seemed great, wasn't ready all that good deep down, even though outside looking in it appeared so. As for a new boyfriend, I'm not interested right now. No one wants to pursue a relationship with a crazy chick like me I guess. Or maybe that's what Ariel(me) tells herself. Plus, Not only am I bipolar, but I have EDNOS and often SI and self medicate with drugs, so I just have too much going on to try to keep a boyfriend. For some reason only guys that want one night stands want anything to do with me anything with me anyway. Maybe that's all I'm worth?

[Zippo]

Haven't had a relationship for 25 years now. I am not looking for one (I have always felt too broken) and will always be alone and I am quite lonely. I feel like no one wanted me ever. I would have liked a soul mate but I attract creeps. I'm too eccentric to live with anyone, now. Too much time alone and if someone put the carrot peeler in a different place it would bug me. I am female and not once, not even for a second in my whole life, did I ever think I would have kids. So at least I haven't missed out on that. Thank gawd for my house bunnies who provide a bit of life around me.

[LettinG0]

I am 50....and single again....because I abruptly divorced my husband during my last hypomanic state...but he is living back in the house with me (kinda strange story...but he is disabled and I take care of him). He does understand me as well as anyone can I guess but we are almost co-dependent. I'm mentally impaired. He is physically impaired. We need each other but make each other worse. Strange world. Could be worse. I've never been any good at the relationship thing. Married four times to three men. (This last one married twice and divorced twice) :

[Homeira]

Originally Posted by LettinG0

I am 50....and single again....because I abruptly divorced my husband during my last hypomanic state...but he is living back in the house with me (kinda strange story...but he is disabled and I take care of him). He does understand me as well as anyone can I guess but we are almost co-dependent. I'm mentally impaired. He is physically impaired. We need each other but make each other worse. Strange world. Could be worse. I've never been any good at the relationship thing. Married four times to three men. (This last one married twice and divorced twice) :

I am sad to hear that you and your eks-husband is actually making each other worse. I think you must really, really ask yourself if you must live like that. Both of you deserve to have a good life and get better - not worse. I might be reading too much into it, and drawing on my own experiences, but I just hate to see someone staying in a situation that is bringing them down.

[StillLeftBehind]

I would like to date a BP person to see if two wrongs make a right.

[Homeira]

Originally Posted by Justugh

i am single so the madness ends with me i got the short drawl in the genetic lotto in my family my older brother married a lady had a kid and seems to be fine nothing like i was nor my little brother

plus honest it would take a saint to live with me let alone want to marry me ...and one to never want kids or to adopt (make a great uncle but a father all the time the kid would be little messed up )

the genetic madness of me ends with me i would not wish my life on my worst enemy

Interesting thay you bring up the aspect of having children vs not having children seen in the light of passing on BP-genes. My family certainly have a bit of BP-genetics, and we have had no problem procreating! The desire to have children seems to override the concern for passing on the illness to the next generation. (I have a large family, and a lot of nieces, nephews and two of my sisters are grandmothers as well). I have a child as well, did not know about my family-history when I had my son, but I think I still would have had him had I known. It is an interesting issue.

[Moogieotter]

I have a 9 year old son and another lil boy on the way. My wife and I have discussed potential bipolar or other issues in our kids from genetic history. From our perspective, who would be better to help the next generation than people like us who have become experts on recognizing the disorder and treatment options.

moogs

[Eva33]

I've been single about 4-5 years now. I had a few random flings in between when I was manic and would get drunk and do dumb things, but I haven't been in a relationship. Now a loving relationship? That was eons ago.

[Eva33]

Originally Posted by StillLeftBehind

I would like to date a BP person to see if two wrongs make a right.

IT'S CHAOS!!!