Do you ever still feel single while in a relationship?

By “feel single” do you mean that you feel lonely, or you feel like you still need to flirt or pursue other things?
If you feel lonely, it lasts as long as it takes to effectively communicate to your partner what you need from them, and hopefully they receive it and step up to the plate.
If you still feel a need to flirt or pursue other things, well, that depends on you.

Nope. Never felt that way with any girl I dated or my wife.

It takes chemistry between two people, for the right combination to be happy.

If not, it’s kind of like the song….Sleeping Single In A Double Bed.

I’ve only ever had serious longterm live-in relationships and this never happened with me. Did I ever feel lonely, like I was the only one really in a “relationship” and the other person was just cruising along to see what would happen, if they wanted to invest in the same way I had? Yeah and it sucked but so at one point I asked them to step up or let me go and the relationship took a turn for the worse and then for the better.

My observation is people are going to do what they’re going to do. You can light a fire under them and push them to reveal what they think or feel in less eloquent ways than they’d initially choose but don’t assume that change things to your favor.

If you feel single then you are not in a relationship.

If you feel alone when you are in a relationship that means you are in a bad one.

Not “single” persay… Lonely yes… I think I will always feel somewhat detached inside from people in general to a certain extent.

I felt that way in my last relationship so I am now single “for real” and really would rather stay that way. It is often what happens when people are not emotionally available. Either you or your partner…and it will last as long as their is no real commitment emotionally or true communication. I think you can change though if you want to. Relationships are just always so complicated I don’t care for them these days. I am happy being single.

Part of me is only my own and that part is probably single in my mind. As Jimmy Carter said, “I sometimes lust in my mind.” That’s probably not the accurate quote, but you know the one I mean. I looked for 30 years and still enjoy looking. I may react to someone I’m attracted to, but I don’t act on it. I give myself some space until I get over it. It’s kind of good to find the old instincts are still alive.

No, I can’t say I do. I feel very connected to my husband (and before him to people I was in a relationship). Not in a ‘joined at the hip’ way though. Still individual, but with a special person in my life.

Yes, whenever I was in a long distance relationship, I felt like I had an invisible part time boyfriend. It had all the drawbacks of being in a relationship with none of the benefits.