I broke up with my gf of 6 years about 3 months ago. Now, apart from the usual unpleasantness of that, I cannot tell you how much more at peace I am, and more importantly for your purposes today, how much fun being single is. Can you imagine being in a relationship for 6 years where sex was more or less a gift to me, to a world of possibility - what a wake up call. In fact one girl loves to wake me at 3 in the morning for 3rds or 4ths -- I didn't know anything happened at 3 in the morning!! But that's another story.