Why do we need the companionship of others? Do you think things would be less complicated if we didn't?

Less complicated but less enjoyable. We were designed to need companionship. It is not good that we be alone!

Definitely , I love the single life and doing my own thing now , totally stress free .

Personally I think we do not need the companionship of others it is something we want. Yes, things would be less complicated if we didn't because there will be no arguments, trust issues, cheating, lying, I am pregnant are you going to help take care of it or leave, and any other horrible thing you can think of. I am 27 yr and I have never been in a long term relationship. I am happier than my friends, have more money, and most if not all my dreams are coming true because I have no one tell me to choose them or my career (when it is my dream)or to run a guilt trip on me ("if you love me you will do stay" meaning you will give up your dream (s) (typically the female) for me and I will go on leaving mine (typically the male) with no regards to your personal goals.

Maybe, but uncomplicated is sometimes very dull.

We are not solitary creatures. We need others like us, as company and as mates. At least it's been studied that men do much better with a wife. Women, it seems can do rather well with other women, but men need women to live longer and stay healthy. And children need to be touched and loved. It's how we were made. We need other people.

Why simplify things? Yes, it's true that being without a partner would be simpler. But then again, having no emotions would be simpler than that, and not being self-aware simpler yet. In fact, let's remove living things from universe altogether, and we can happily say that we have a fairly simpler universe. Heck...let's return to a singularity and not even have reality; simplest of all. Get real. From the very beginning, increasing complexity is what has been giving rise to the incredible spectrum of perceivable experience. If you can't appreciate and celebrate moving away from a simple existence, maybe you don't deserve your complex one. Viva l'amour!

One is the lonliest number. I think if you veiw your time "alone" rather than "quality time with yourself", you will feel alone no matter what. If you are already content on being with yourself then I think you can be with anyone. If you can love yourself FIRST, i mean able to nurture your own needs, then you can nurture others. Then the satisfaction of having a companion would increase and the perceived complications would cease to exist.