No matter how much you try to block it out, there is something about heading into your 30s single – or if you prefer, self-partnered – that can give rise to a slightly unavoidable biological panic.

Despite the fact that single childfree women are actually the happiest, it’s difficult not to feel pressured to settle down by your 30s, thanks to the barrage of subliminal messaging convincing us that we run the risk of being left on the proverbial shelf, or the last one standing in a game of musical chairs.

We know it, Emma Watson knows it, and so too does Bella Mackie.

In her words, the journalist and Jog On author was in such a rush to settle down in her 20s that she ended up “spectacularly tanking” her first marriage and suddenly found herself in the very situation she had dreaded: single at 30.

While she met and married BBC Radio 1 host Greg James last year, those years she spent single in between marriages in her 30s were happier than any in her 20s, she revealed on The High Low podcast.

Bella Mackie’s advice on finding love after 30 is something every single woman needs to read