Scenario:
It’s Saturday night and all of your friends are going on dates. You’re left at home watching Big Love ... and even polygamy is starting to look good. What’s a girl to do when her best friends for the night are Chloe Sevigny and Jeanne Tripplehorn?

Brainstorm. Write down places you want to travel, hobbies you want to learn and restaurants you want to try. Ford says it’s easy to forget what we want to do when we’re lonely¬¬. Just remember that one of the best perks of being solo is that you can do whatever you want, whenever you want.

Scenario:
Everyone is trying to hook you up with someone “special,” but you want to find a man on your own terms. How do you opt out?

Avoid the set up and say no to saying sorry. It’s okay to feel good about your single status. “Don’t feel the need to apologize. Especially, when … you follow what’s right for you. People are going to throw all their opinions at you no matter what you’re doing,” Ford says.