Successful writer bares her mind on being single at 51

Christina Patterson, a successful 51-year-old writer has opened up on single life. She says she wasted so much time in her younger years agonising over being single, she could have written a voluminous bestseller in that time. She had a successful career at a young age but felt a boyfriend was the final piece to make her happy. She says she'll advise her younger self not to ruin the beautiful life she's got pining over something she doesn't have...Writing in Daily Mail, she says that being single meant she had the time to climb the career ladder and nurture life-long friendships and those friendships, she says, are more important that romantic connections. Friends are happy to sit around with you doing nothing long after the spark has gone out of romance.