Anne Widdecombe on Love and being alone

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I was watching an interview conducted by Piers Morgan with Anne Widdecombe on Saturday night and he was not very understanding of her love life. She is I think like many of us here who have not come accross the right person and who live alone.

He asked if she was lonely going home to an empty house. What's she meant to say, yes I cry all the time. No, that's not healthy. You get on with your life and enjoy what you've got. He made out like she was crazy for saying that she enjoys going home and thinking, "thank goodness no one's here and it's just me." Enjoying the peace and quiet of your own space seems to be a common autistic way of thinking which many of my friends share.

He also asked her about sex and told her that normally people think about it all the time. Why is it that it is not ok to be A-sexual? Many people on here are asexual and I suspect she may be too. Why can't the world understand that some people don't like to be touched. I thought it was so sweet that she loved Anton du Beke's woolly cardigan which was a nice buffer so that she didn't have to touch him when they danced:)

Was anyone else irritated by Pier's Morgan's questions?

Yes I saw that interview aswell. I have to say that I don't agree with many of her personal views. However I know what you mean about how Piers reacted to her single life. Unfortunately a lot of people seem to be of the viewpoint that if you are single you are somehow "lacking" something as opposed to it just being a different situation. Like when people refer to their partner as their "other half", which implies you are only half a person if you are single; I really hope not!
For quite a while I have been aware that people who have children tend to be quite patronising towards people who choose not to, even if not to thier faces; "They wouldn't understand what it's like" type of comments but they seem to rarely think that maybe they are not aware of the challenges a single person faces. This really frustrates me!

The more I read sad threads like this the more I see that there is very little love and sympathy to people who are different in our world.

Bullying is everywhere in our societies. People who are deemed weak or inferior in some way get bullied and abused a lot.

I hope that one day peace, calmness and love will prevail in the world and not war.

It's Anne Widdecombe, so...