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Being Single Again Is Fabulous Fun But Attitude Is Everything
By Gareth Eastwood.

Being single again can be a massively rewarding experience. For me, an unexpected divorce at the age of forty-two led me to eventually create and manage one of the biggest face-to-face singles networks in the world, Going Places With Gareth. The network is based in Adelaide, South Australia. After five years, around five thousand people had become involved in it to some degree.

People have been literally astounded at functions I have held with as many as five hundred singles attending at a time. They are amazed at the open friendliness of our regular guests and the way that newcomers easily fit into the group. They are impressed with the variety of hugely successful events held each week and the extensive web site which I created and maintain to promote and run the network.

What those people never saw was me in the early days waiting on lonely street-corners for crowds of people who just weren't coming. Believe me, it is an arduous drive home when you arrange a singles social event and nobody attends. Without my years of training in the life insurance industry I could never had retained a sufficiently positive outlook to keep trying until success came.