In the news

In addition to our monthly competition - where you can win Amazon vouchers - we always have various competitions and offers, including all sorts of giveaways.

Read more singles-related news

---

Competitions and offers

In addition to our monthly competition - where you can win Amazon vouchers - we always have various competitions and offers, including all sorts of giveaways.

Visit Competitions and offers

---

Articles

Fun and one

Once upon a time, I was a self-pitying, struggling single parent. Bogged down by crippling responsibility and depression following the horrific death of my son, and the catastrophic injuries to my daughter incurred in a car accident in 1987, I feared that my relationship number was finally up. A mature student reading law at Cambridge University, I'd go along to social events in a state of eager anticipation of finding The One. Talk about "Desperately Seeking Susan".
Read Fun and one

Sex and the suddenly single person - recycled and rampant?

How many of us, 'Suddenly Single' in the 21st century, believing the ancient illusion that we're so incomplete without a Sexual Significant Other, are prone to throw ourselves at anything with a pulse? Who hasn't stayed with someone way beyond their relationship sell-by date just because of the fear that nobody else will ever fancy them? Which middle-aged 'recycled' person hasn't at least once been utterly convinced that they'll never, ever have the opportunity to have sex again and that they're liable to, God forbid, turn into a born-again virgin?
Read Sex and the suddenly single person - recycled and rampant?

Flying solo and loving it

Travelling alone as a single person in a society in which couples are the norm can be a difficult journey, but being single isn’t all about loneliness and dodgy dates. Some people absolutely love the single way of life. Fortunately I’m one of them, and for the time being I can’t imagine it any other way. I've experienced a number of relationships in my past, both good ones and bad ones, but if you asked me right now to choose between commitment and being single, single is exactly where I want to be.
Read Flying solo and loving it

Wish you were single?

It's the same old story: the proverbial grass that looks greener on the other side. Singles perhaps don't realize they are the envy of many who are in a committed relationship or married, for the freedom, possibilities and liberating options that the single life offers.
Read Wish you were single?