Yesterday, I had a former close acquaintance/coworker basically flat out tell me, "Sorry, but I'm going to ignore you when I'm with my husband because I'm too busy to talk to you. But I"m not with him now so we can talk!" I walked away and left her there.
I can't imagine being like this. To me it's beyond rude to not acknowledge other people simply because you're with someone. So I understand completely when aros need to vent that they are dumped for the significant other. I understand I'm not Number One but to completely dump people and pick them up when you're not with someone? Rude. I won't deal with people like that.
That said, I don't worry about being alone, I worry about paying my bills and keeping my house. I'm in retail which pays absolutely nothing, I'm in retail because of an awful childhood/yound adulthood, and I have no direction because I simply hate people and hate everything. I have no friends, and they don't really help with this anyway. I'm terrified of being homeless but the thought of living with someone else out of necessity when my mother passes away terrifies me to the core.
The ""being alone"" I can easily handle, it's making enough money to live that I'm not sure about.