Harridan old maid laments the financial toll of being single

[MatureDJ]

I’ve Been Single for Decades. The Effect on My Finances Has Been Staggering.

Through spending, I hoped I’d find a way to like myself more. Be more confident. Be someone people wanted to spend time with.

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Paying the minimum payment on huge credit balances and then spending back up to the limit. Ever since I was 18 and was first offered credit and an overdraft, I’ve amassed heart-thudding debts, the kind that make you dissociate, as though the debt is a fungus growing in the dark that you have no hand in. How did it get like this? I’d ask myself, clueless.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

Lady can't control her spending and blames it on her undate-ability.

Had she had a dude she would have ruined his finances as well.

 

[Bokanovsky]

Without commitments and responsibilities to a predominant other—a partner, a child—I’ve found myself wanting to identify what commitments and responsibilities I will choose to hold. To shape a life that has its own rituals, events to assign meaning to and rules to live by. Even if only that I will change my bedsheets once a week. Get eight hours of sleep a night. Make sure my nieces and nephews know I love them. Use up leftovers rather than spend money on take-aways. Hang out with my cats. Remember birthdays, sad anniversaries. Put out sunflower hearts for the birds. If I begin to fail in my personal and domestic routines, I sense that something is up, that more disorder could elbow in. These routines are the tenets of my selfcare, and gesture toward self-love.

The life of a modern "empowered" woman after she hits the wall. A pretty said existence if you ask me.