Personally I'm terrified of having to spend a portion of my life alone. I've spent my adult life (25 years) with a romantic/domestic partner, doing everything t

Personally I'm terrified of having to spend a portion of my life alone. I've spent my adult life (25 years) with a romantic/domestic partner, doing everything together. I don't spend time with friends in the absence of my romantic/domestic partner. Once, during those 25 years, that relationship ended and I lived alone for a while. You should feel free to laugh at me and say this paragraph is hysterical or lacks perspective, seeing I was perfectly free, but it felt like prison. I completely failed to handle it. It is very hard to contemplate the idea of my partner's death in the future, and attempting to live beyond it.