This section of the website is all about helping you to get more out of life - by facing up to what's happened in the past, tackling issues and finding the motivation to take positive steps forward.

We hope you'll find the information and insights in Single Again helpful, but you may still feel that it's all just too overwhelming and you don't know where to begin. That's why we offer free one-to one advice for all Single Living Extra members, and you can also sign up for our New You Programme, which is designed to help move things forward in small steps.

In this section (Single Living members only):

Personal stories

When he dropped the bombshell that there was someone else I had not the slightest idea. As far as I was concerned we were both still in love. We never argued and rarely fell out. We still held hands and sat together on the sofa in each other's arms. We loved and laughed and I had never doubted his love for me. Me a professional person, always rational and law abiding, suddenly turned into a mad woman ...
Read Angela's story

It gets better. Think positive. Look ahead. Time heals. You deserve better. What goes around comes around. Do all these sound familiar? For the most part, these aphorisms are true and life does go on but how and when does it start?

Very good question. I sometimes hate my present life, I'm sad, then happy; depressed then upbeat. I feel like Jekyl and Hyde! For a few days, I'm full of positive energy, creating a new life for myself and my son, getting out and about, talking to my friends, laughing and joking - and then I wake up and the coin has been reversed during the night. I wake dreaming of him or her or them and it's 5.30 or 6.00 in the morning! Life is a bitch and then you die, and that is so true.

However, life does go on and the only person that can make this happen is you ...
Read Helen's story

A year on from the day my husband left me and I'm looking back and taking stock, so to speak. Everyone's story is different; the only real similarity is that you're left alone and hurting - mistakenly thinking you're out there alone and having to cope alone. But you don't.

I was married for twenty-four years, but he left me for another woman and I was devastated. He ruined my past, destroyed my present and took away my future: I had no future. I wanted to die, I really did. I wanted to go to sleep each night and never wake up - but I had two kids and I had to put them first ...
Read Jane's story

If you have an interesting story to tell, please do let us know.

Expert advice

Why do I fall for men that I can't have?

Why do I always fancy men who are unavailable? I've just finished with a married man that I couldn't have because he wanted to stay with his wife and kids. He's the second attached man that I've been involved with. Now I'm falling in love with a guy my parents disapprove of because he's a musician - they say he's not good enough for their daughter. I don't know why I always fall for these types of men I can't be with. I just feel drawn to them for some reason.

Read expert advice from relationships psychologist Susan Quilliam