Top 10 Things I Love About Being Single

What a fun post! So excited for you and this new season of life!

Married, but when he gets irritating, single looks good, kidding. I love breakfast, pretty much all breakfast foods. I also love college football, it’s my one sports vice..

Janae this post made me smile! Especially the part about you dating again, I cannot wait to hear about that. My divorce was finalized two weeks ago and it still hurts and I still have times I want to cry and scream but living by myself is soo so nice. I watch Bravo all the time and have no concerns about leaving a mess or cooking for someone.

Love this post! Awesome Top Ten List! Remember that when people are talking about you/judging you behind your back…they are behind your back for a reason! All of these are awesome I dont think I could pick even one as my fav.

Love brinner. Your waffle picture looks so yummy. But as for cereal I just cant do it. Too many ickies in them. So I make my own granola for cereal ~ so supper easy and basically you can use what you have in your kitchen.

Have a great day :)

divorce stinks and you are ALWAYS in my prayers, friend!!! you’ve turned something crummy into something positive.

I love your positivity!!

I’m dating; my bf and I have been together about 9 months and although I love him to pieces, and there are obviously many many good things about having a solid partnership, I am sooo glad I live alone so I can still experience many of the single girl perks… taking up the whole bed, eating whatever the heck I want most of the time, turning on all the lights at 530am when I get up, making loud smoothies in the morning, etc :) These reasons are probably a good 75% of the reason I recently chose to keep my little 1 bedroom apartment and live alone for another year before moving in with my bf. Can’t beat it!

PS who doesn’t like breakfast?! I mean come on, it’s the most important meal of the day AND the best meal of the day. Let’s be real.

Definitely a brinner person!! Love your positive spin on your divorce! I’m happily married, but you’re right, there are definitely positives to being single!

Happy post Thursday!!
I have been widowed now for 15 years so I consider myself single mostly but every so often I feel I am not being true to myself and guilty he would be mad so then I will say widowed. It’s complicated!

Watching sports on tv? Yuck! Unless it is World Series or super bowl and in connection with a party and snacks.

Brinner, brunch and breakfast are my favorite meals. :)

Not a fan of raisin bran. Gets soggy too fast and tastes like cardboard.

I am on board with your entire list by the way for why single rocks.

Totally jealous that you get the whole bed to yourself ;) I don’t like any of the FMW varieties as much as the original by the way, though the maple one is pretty good.

Totally love breakfast for dinner, my favorites are pancakes or crepes!

This is a great post! I love that you can find the best parts of any situation that you are thrown into :) My bf and I have recently encountered that issue of me wanting to read “one more chapter” and him wanting the lights off- so I am jealous of you for that one! ;)

Loved this. You’re dating again?!? Can’t wait to hear about it!!

I have been dating the same person for 2.5 years, it’s GREAT. We are long distance and have been for a year and half, which sucks, but I also feel like I get the best of both worlds (of course I’d still choose to be not long distance, over all). I get to have girls nights and time to myself, and we are in driving distance so we see each other every other week. It’s worth it!

I actually highly enjoy watching football on TV, but baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis, golf = NO.

I don’t like Captain Crunch. It cuts my mouth and makes it all filmy. SICK.

You are such a positive person! What a great way to look at things.

I am married, we are about to celebrate 11 years in May and we both love football, but cheer for opposing teams! Twice a season things get really tense in my house (Go Cowboys!). My daughter and I love brinner, but husband does not. What is wrong with him?? I make it when he is on business trips or at a night meeting, then everyone is happy.

I like cereal, but mostly Kashi and Golden Grahams and when I’m really bad, Fruit Loops! I cannot eat Total, which was my sister’s favorite growing up. Odd child! :)

I hope you have a great day!

Single. Sports not so much, unless its for the local football team or the Super Bowl. I don’t usually have breakfast foods for dinner BUT I am one of the biggest cereal fans ever. The cereal aisle is one of my favorite places in the store and I pretty much love every kind. I don’t judge (: I had cheerios and lucky charms this morning, obviously starting the day right!

Umm how have I never heard of the term ‘brinner’?! I looooove breakfast foods!

Love your list! :)

A. Breakfast foods are the best and I also had brinner last night.

B. Love the positivity of this post and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for you.

C. I don’t really care for Oat Bran…but I will probably eat any cereal if I throw in some fruit with it. :-)

This is a great list and I’m so glad you are able to look at all the positives about being single. I am married but there are plenty of times I wish I had a king bed all to myself:) The holiday thing is definitely hard….we both have family in a couple different states which makes it super complicated and inconvenient for both of us. But there are great things about being married and having lots of family too…so its just important to appreciate the positives of the current situation you are in. I’m looking forward to hearing more about your dating:)

Breakfast for dinner is the best. We only ever really do eggs for brinner, though, because Mike doesn’t like pancakes or waffles (WHAT?).

I could definitely do without watching sports. I usually just get a bunch of books during football and college basketball seasons so I can read on the couch while Mike yells at the tv and scares the dog.

I think the best part about being married is that when something goes wrong, you’re not on your own…like losing a job, etc. Plus, it’s fun to always have someone to hang out with.

Haha I love being single.

Good for you for starting to date again! But you know, if you get involved with someone, there goes all those things you are loving about being single! ;)

I’m married–got married while I was still in college to the guy that I had been dating since high school. Sometimes I wish I had enjoyed a few years of singleness first, but I think the best thing about being married is having someone to share the load, whether it be household chores, difficult decisions, heartbreak, ect, plus having a sidekick for all the good things in life, too.

Good for you Janae! I love your positive attitude. You and Brooke have so much to look forward to!

Brinner is the best meal of the day, I love pancakes for dinner and it’s the primary reason I’m seriously considering investing in a waffle iron.

Plus, being single means I can do things like seriously consider investing in waffle iron, or picking up and moving wherever I want. AND NO ONE CAN JUDGE ME FOR WATCHING MURDER, SHE WROTE MARATHONS EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND.

I’m 3 1/2 years married and love getting to hang out all the time with my best friend. My husband is on the road almost every week, so I get my fair share of solo time though. I really don’t mind it… an excuse to go to yoga, watch crappy TV, or hang out with my friends without feeling sad that he’s home alone.

I’m a HUGE sports fan and will watch almost any sport anytime. I get unreasonably into it, even if its not necessarily my thing. I’m pumped to watch the Masters this weekend, and my husband got me into Formula 1 racing.

YES, YES, YES to brinner! Most often it’s something like an egg white breakfast sandwich, but breakfast foods rule supreme. I have to confess, I’m not that into super sugary cereals. A good bowl of Special K is cool with me.

By the way, I SO admire your positive attitude. I felt so sad for you with the nasty text this week, so this post made me really happy for you.

I have realized that in life there are goods and bads for everything. I am now married and love being married but I wish I had appreciated being single when I was single. I love having dates for weddings (this seriously stressed me out when I was single), I love having someone who is there for me and that I can plan a future with, I love being connected to someone and working through things and growing stronger together. However, I definitely miss being single sometimes. I am a very independent person and it is really hard for me sometimes to be married. I loved not having to share my time and being able to do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted – I could travel, take whatever job I wanted, volunteer in a foreign country, hang out with my friends, move to a new state, etc. Now if I did everything I wanted I would never see my husband, like ever. I feel like this is what I miss the most. And I wish I had appreciated it more when I was single – but I was so terrified of being single forever that I didn’t fully appreciate it. So, if I could go back in time and talk to myself – that is what I would say: appreciate all the aspects of being single and live up every single moment. Being single is great and being married is great – but you can’t have both!

I’ve been married for almost 14 years. Some of the best things about my situation include: coffee being made and brought to me in the morning, someone who will go running with me at a crazy early time, I get to share inside jokes with him and he totally understands my career as he is a teacher also, and we have all of our holidays off together.

I want to hear more about dating!!

Great list. I love how positive you are with every stage of your situation. I’m so happy youre enjoying dating again. I can’t wait to hear a little more about it because in my mind we’re actually friends ok? Haha!
Breakfast foods are my all time favorite. I don’t get how some people skip it. I start looking forward to breakfast the night before!

I’m married 4 years this month and we’re having our twins very (VERY) soon!
We got married sortof later (I was 28 and he was 37), and had both been single for a long time before that. I always tell my single friends who are lamenting being single to be happy with yourself and that’s when he or she will come. At least, that’s what happened to me. I’m glad you are making a concerted effort to get to know yourself and make yourself happy before allowing someone else in.

I’m not a huge breakfast food fan…I’m not really a sweets person, and that’s what breakfast foods seem to be mostly. I LOVE bagels and fruit however and will eat both at any time of day.

I don’t care about sports at all, but my husband works in sports, so I’ve watched a lot of college basketball, football, and baseball in the last few years. I’m sorta starting to understand it all. Fortunately, he’s not the type who puts SportsCenter on ever. And I’m excited to say that he finally likes one of the reality TV shows I watch, Restaurant Impossible!

I have been married for almost 14 years…I just feel really blessed. I love that my husband is my best friend, and I love that even though we have been married 14 years I still get excited just talking about him. I know that we share something very special and I pray that I will never take that or him for granted.
Having said that we all go through our ups and downs and I do very much believe tat God has his hand in all of it and knows the outcome. I also have a very close friend struggling through a a divorce and i can’t imagine, but keep looking forward and trusting that there are better days ahead :)…I am now curious to hear about this dating comment :)
You are a great mom and doing such a good job of providing a stable environment for Brooke.
Anyone who doesn’t like breakfast foods and want to eat them constantly is crazy

Love this post Janae and love your positive outlook! Makes me happy to hear that you’re dating – can’t wait to hear more about it!! :)

So happy for you!!!! You sound wonderful! :) Can’t wait to hear more about the dating, so exciting!!

I love this and love to see how you’re adjusting to this new life. I found a lot of the same ‘perks’ of the end of a long serious relationship. I went from planning on moving across country and spending my life with him to being left flat on my butt (on Christmas no less…).
But this time alone has really given me time to figure ME out and it’s been wonderful.

I am NOT a big sports fan at all! You couldn’t pay me to sit through any kind of sports game on TV. Going to a live game is a whole nother (not a real word) ball game! I can tolerate that but I am very lucky my husband is not a sports fan :) One sport event that I have to watch every year are the Winter X Games because I snowboard and LOVE watching the pros compete in the high pipe!! Brinner fan all the way over here , heck I could have breakfast foods for breakfast,lunch and dinner :)

First of all, waffles are ALWAYS a good idea. Leslie Knope knows what’s up.

And it may be because I’m preggo and hormonal, but this was seriously the best post I’ve read. Ever. In the history of the internet. My heart feels like it could burst from happiness. You deserve so much goodness!

Girl. You definitely need to share how to make dating fun – I’m five months out of a 4 year relationship that ended surprisingly, I’ve been on one date and it made me feel so sad. Thanks for being honest and speaking your truth – love it!!

Thanks for this post. It was exactly what I needed this morning. My boyfriend of 5 years and I broke up this week and I am having a hard time with it, of course. But reading about you and the positives to being single was what I needed to hear. He always complained about me eating in bed and I never got to catch up on my tv shows, so it’s nice to think I’ll be able to do whatever I want without anyone judging me :) thanks again!

Single and loving it! I’m too set in my ways to be married at this point. I embrace my freedom. I love breakfast and could eat it all day. The only thing I will say is most restaurants don’t make breakfast the way I like it.

LOVE LOVE your attitude, girl!! Keep it up!!!

I am married. Dating always seemed very awkward for me. My husband is almost as nerdy/quirky as I am… and we both need our own alone time and respect that.

I’ll occasionally watch basketball/baseball/football with family when an important game is on… I enjoy watching tennis and track meets. :)

I am TOTALLY a brinner person. I make a mean biscuits’n’gravy. Breakfast food is my absolute favorite. It’s also what I happen to be best at cooking.

I don’t like applejacks. Right now I’m going through a phase of cocoapuffs and honey nut cheerios.

Good for you for dating again. As painful as breakups are (100% worse when it’s a divorce, I’m sure), I always say you need to get back out there, even if it’s not serious (ESPECIALLY if it’s not serious). I think this list is fabulous.

Perks of being single: my bed is my own (spread out!), my room is my own, my time is my own. I really am spoiled right now being able to do just about whatever I want, when I want. Like having froyo for dinner! (note: this does not happen often) I do look forward to marriage and motherhood though :)
Brinner = amazing. I do love football and basketball on TV…but not any other sport.

I am married to a wonderful man, but I have to say one of his biggest flaws is that he is one of those people who doesn’t like breakfast foods (the horror!) So no brinner in my household :(

I love most cereal, but for some reason I HATE the way Cap’n Crunch feels in my mouth. It leaves an icky film.

I love your list! I love that you can put a positive spin on your trials, I need to be more like you! Married — for almost 8 years! Right now because I am 6 months preggo I am grateful that I have someone else to make up for my deficiencies– especially with our 4 year old — because let’s be honest, I am pretty much a permanent addition to the couch this pregnancy (it has been the worst ever…)

I’m happy that you’re learning about yourself as an individual :) I went through a tough breakup in July of 2012. Once I was happy as a single lady and not even thinking about relationships, I met my AMAZING boyfriend. We have been together for a little over a year now.

This post is so fun and you are such an inspiration! I love sports especially college (Kentucky Wildcats all the way!) and will be married 3 years next month. I do miss some of those single perks though! I don’t comment very often but emaile you once and am so thankful you took the time to respond! I feel like you are a true friend to so many and you deserve so much happiness! If you ever come to KY I would love to hang out!! Phillipians 4:8 is one of my favorite verses and you certainly do this!

You are my hero. I’ve been married 21 years. We’ve had ups and downs but I honestly can’t remember what life was like before him and can’t imagine a future without him.
I love watching the NFL – the hubs mot so much but he knows if he wants to spend time with me on Sundays and Mondays Aug – Feb that’s what I’ll be doing.