Alone Doesn’t (Have to) Mean Lonely

I never was a woman who was afraid to be alone. In fact, I prided myself on enjoying my single status for many years. I liked my own…

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I never was a woman who was afraid to be alone. In fact, I prided myself on enjoying my single status for many years. I liked my own company, and I didn’t have any silly fears about loneliness.

Until I did.

And, suddenly, it wasn’t so silly anymore. I’d gotten caught up in this idea of myself as this “fortress of solit…