We Are Not Less
The following is again a more personal post.
The words I share below have resonated strongly with many on social media. Therefore, I am sharing them here too. May they land with others who gain from reading them.
Here’s to love, in all its diversity and depth.
Daring to share on Valentine’s Day because The Marine Detective is as much about equality and finding one’s way as it is about marine life.
We are not “less”.
I am writing this for myself as much as I am for others in the same boat.
(See what I did there? So clever! 
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If today you can look into the eyes of a partner and from the depths of your soul say “I love you”, that is so very, very much to be celebrated.
THIS is for the widow(er)s, the estranged, the separated, the childless, the partnerless, and / or the loverless (fun word to say). We are not less.
A paradigm is pushed at us that to be coupled is to be better. That being single is something to be solved or cured.
No. Many of us are living realities where this “single” life is so much more than the mediocrity, hollowness, or even damage inflicted from past partners, and that we perceive in the relationships of others.
Here’s to what got us where we are today – the tough decisions made, the growth, the scarring, the healing, the searching, the stopping, the loving, the uncompromising, the escaping, the vulnerability, and the freedom.
Here’s to the love in our full lives, the love in our hearts, the love we put into the world, and the love in our futures – whatever we chose that to be.
To be single, is not to be alone.
To be single, is not to be without love.
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#NotPlentyOfFish
#SingleAndSane
#FindYourOwnWay
#SingularPurpose
#OceanVoice
The Marine Detective 
13 Responses to “We Are Not Less”
To me, Love IS All That Is. Love yourself first, and allow that self-love to be a candle in the center of your being. Let it grow until you become the candle and your love flows out from you in all directions. A candle doesn’t reach out to touch others with its light; it simply is itself. 💗
Hugs,
M&M
🧙&🧙♂️
Thank you, and thank you to all the people who decided to not bring yet more humans into this world that is already overburdened so by our numbers. There are countless existing beings who are in desperate need of love and care, including many non-human ones who are also deserving of it.
Truer words…
To add to that, we are all ultimately alone on our journey………partner or not. Being alone ultimately is not lonely but fulfilling internally if we but realize our potential as a human being! And that has nothing to do with a partner! It’s an individual job!
Thankyou so very Much for writing this!
So well written!
Love you!
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Means so much Trudy. Thank you.
Well writing Jackie and so true Love mom
Applause for a thoughtful, well written article. I so enjoy your adventures and have a gift calendar each year and one of your framed photographs hanging up in my living room. I live in Sidney on Bazen Bay and often visit my son and family in port McNeill.
Deeply appreciate the feedback Gloria.
Being single too, I love looking in the mirror and saying “I love you.”
….and that makes me laugh, too!
Power to you!
My eyes are a bit leaky today but, I feel hugged and I hug you right back. ❤️
I feel it Laura. And thank you very much for that.