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ARE men scared of being alone? If famous blokes are anything to go by, they will often have a woman waiting in the wings before calling time on a soured relationship. We told yesterday how former This Morning host Eamonn Holmes , who announced his split from TV presenter wife Ruth Langsford in May and moved out last month, is now close to a new woman. And when golfer Rory McIlroy announced he was to divorce wife Erica Stoll , it emerged he had been linked a TV reporter – although he is now back with Erica and the divorce is off.

Writer Rebecca Tidy, 37, speaks from personal experience about why men crave constant attention and cannot handle being alone . . .



SITTING on the sofa in my Cornwall home, I feel blissfully happy. I’ve spent the day working and will soon go off to pick up my daughter from school. The house is tidy, my plants are soaking in the sink and the fridge is full of the vegan food I love.

I’m without a man in my life to mess up the house, fill the fridge with meat that I hate or complain about my plants cluttering up the sink. I’m very happily single — and under my new rules, I will be for a long time. I recently vowed never to date a man who hasn’t been single for at least two years — that’s the only way I can be sure they’re a grown-up rather than a needy “boy”.

Unfortunately, in my experience they are as rare as unicorns. Most men I know seem to jump hastily from one woman to another and I suspect more often than not when they finish .

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