What counts for more

When you've been on your own for a few years and you are older, the appetite for a relationship can completely go away. At least it did for me.

It's a blessing because you now know yourself well and understand what about your life is negotiable and what isn't. You also reflect on your previous relationships with realism rather than the idealism of youth.

I always tell people who ask that there is an openness there but no search which describes it perfectly well. Your current life, for the first time ever lived in complete authenticity, counts for much more.

After all, what good is company if you cannot be who you are.