Going it alone.

Yes, ditto , Patsy ! I've been asked out for a walk next Sunday and am not going to tell my kids ! Why do they do that , they don't want us , but at the same time , don't want anyone else to have us ?

Just do it! I have no qualms about going anywhere on my own, even go on holiday solo, if nobody wants to accompany me. I enjoy opportunity to talk to new people I meet on my travels be it to cinema, theatre, concert or Africa, Vietnam or France, to name a few. Go girl!

I have started to go alone to the cinema . It's ok . Still leaves the huge issue of having no one to share so many of life's exoeriences with . My children think I should be content to sit alone at home most nights of the week and most of the weekend and make it clear they disapprove of me needing a relationship. I am a very active 62 year old and a full time working professional woman. I haven't had a relationship for 8 years and when I started one recently they gave me hell.

Yes, I go to things on my own , too . Cinema's the best , you can watch the whole film better without someone yapping beside you ! Buy a coffee and enjoy it . Yes , the first time I did it I felt self conscious but grew to enjoy it ! The Railway Man was on last night , that was one I'd promised my friend I'd go to see with her , but she died suddenly before we saw it and is now buried in the cemetery that the wedding scene was filmed in . I went to the film for her . Made it special .

ruby last time I was at the theatre there was a woman on her own in the row in front. She had an aisle seat, spoke to everyone who went past her and looked so relaxed. Once everyone was seated how could anyone else know she was alone? I never budge from my seat in the interval, DH always goes walkabout, if anyone looked like Billy no mates it was me as the neighbour of the woman in front also stayed in their seat. Be brave, what's the worst that can happen? .

Yes go on your own I agree with you its harder at the theatre because its more of a social thing but better than missing something Dont fall for a man just for a theatre companion safer to find a girlfriend less damaging I ve been on my own nearly 20 years and it aint happening now so I ve accepted that and cant see me sharing my home with an old man ( haha)

Thanks to all. I have been to the cinema before on my own and that was lovely actually, like M0nica said, I didn't have to consider anyone else's comfort and could just enjoy it myself. So going to the cinema doesn't really bother me, on my own, but going to the theatre on my own is a bit more daunting, due to the interval and sitting on my own nursing a drink, looking like Billy No Mates. Maybe I am getting to a stage now that I am ready to meet someone new, special, in my life? I have been single for over 10 years.

I have no qualms at all about going to anything by myself and never have had. It is quite often very nice to be able to enjoy things exactly how you want to do them without having to think of anyone else.

I nearly always go to things on my own - occasionally with a friend, but if I can find no-one else wanting to go then I have no problem going on my own.

OH never did like going out, even before he got his PD.

I usually find someone nice to chat to - and I love meeting new people.

Do it !!

I nearly always go on my own, having no one to go with!

By all means go on your own, and enjoy the film. I used to go to choral concerts on my own, as choral music is not DH's bag.

Yes, go on your own. And have a while you're there.

When I saw the OP I thought it was another referendum thread

Hope you enjoy the film, ruby

Yes, go on your own. I often do. There is no law against it.
I think a lot of people who say they don't like to go places on their own are actually just worried that others will think they are odd and / or have no friends. Who cares what they think .

DH and I went to see "Me Before You" yesterday at the cinema and I saw several women come in on their own. I think it's now much more common than it used to be. Do what you want!

Just go for it! Lots of people go on their own. I have done it.