Why is being single considered so terrible? Of course everyone needs a little affection once in a while, and sex with a partner your comfortable with can be great, but there is also something to be said about singlehood. Being single is fun. You don’t owe anything to anyone. You can do whatever you want whenever you like with anyone you chose. Single people are better friends and normally more fun on a night out. I don’t know why people feel they need to be perpetually significant other hunting. Be happy, enjoy your own company and have fun alone. Don’t take relationships too seriously not every person you meet of the opposite sex has to be a potential mate, sometimes they can just be an interesting person to talk to for an hour. —Relax
This article appears in Feb 2-8, 2012.
“not every person you meet of the opposite sex has to be a potential mate”
I think that’s the pride week motto…
I long to be single, but I know, if I was I would long for a partner. The grass always seems greener on the other side. We should enjoy the side we are on to it’s full potential. Because that is where we are now. And now is where it is at.
there’s grass on the other side???
quick, grab some before the popo’s come and take it all away.
Nope INFY, being single is every bit as awesome as you imagine and then some. The grass is fabulous over here. I just put in a pool too.
Valid Bitch!
again, here i am. what, no takers, holy shit.
Enjoy your pool Mel. Can I bring the wife and children over for a dip?
“Can I bring the wife and children over for a dip?”
Giggety!
I’m sure it wasn’t meant to sound this way, but that just came across tres, tres creepy :S
I enjoyed my single days. Now if I was single I be pretty bored.
Only if you ditch the balls and chains INFY ;D
MEL! YOU HOE!
😀
I knew there was a reason I liked ya!
you gonna take that?
the girl with three pussies calling you a gardening tool…..
Being single is great! Having been married for 20 years and now finding myself without a “mate”, I am now revelling in singlehood. My children, bless them, are adults now and on their own. I can come and go without having to justify and explain where and with whom I’ve spent my time; I can eat when I’m hungry instead of having to cater to someone else’s biological digestive system; I can watch what I want on TV without having someone denigrating my tastes in entertainment; I can spend my own hard-earned money without someone questioning every cent I’ve let pass through my fingers.
I no longer have to listen to someone rattling the bloody walls all night with a snore that resembles a freight train and who is too fucking stubborn and/or cheap to invest in some BreatheRight strips. I’ve had six months of consecutive good nights’ sleep…bliss!!
I have decided that I will never seek another “mate”. I have taken on a lover, hook up once or twice a week, laugh a lot and have lovely lunches in fine restaurants. I will decorate my new condo to my own taste without a single wall being dedicated to a television and sports memorabilia from the 1970s. Everything is now all about me…finally!!
i don’t know which i like more. single or taken. i like coming home to someone and making them supper and cuddling on the couch. but as a single person i like going out and partying. i still do but in a relationship its not the same… too many boundaries
HAHA Old Broad, fuck yeah rock on lady!!!
I think everyone goes through cycles, you get into stuff, it doesn’t work out, you shun relationships for a while, but I think eventually everyone gets lonely. Neither being single or in a relationship are really a day at Disney World. Your happiness depends on a lot more than your relationship status I think, some people just are better at being in relationships or at being single.
“I can watch what I want on TV without having someone denigrating my tastes in entertainment”
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“I will decorate my new condo to my own taste without a single wall being dedicated to a television…”
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where are you going to watch TV outside of your condo without anyone else mocking you for wanting to see snooki defaecate on a stolen lab monkey she’s trying to hook up with?
Hahaaaaaaa Old Broad, sounds lovely and somewhat like me, minus the children and lawyers fees and such. Yesterday, I ate a whole bag of Starburst. Life is gooood. My burps smelt beautiful for hours.
-Young Broad
Single people make better friends? I duuunn’t think so.
I’m NOT single and I am the best friend ever. I also am good looking, have a good job, like to fuck and am really really good at it. I’m the shit. Sorry to brag, but being me is like being on cloud 9.
@zZz-Ray–“where are you going to watch TV outside of your condo without anyone else mocking you for wanting to see snooki defaecate on a stolen lab monkey she’s trying to hook up with?”
Well, darling, I’ll explain it to you. I’ll be watching my own TV, in my own home. This time around, the entire living room will not be built around a theater-sized TV screen with someone constantly carping and whining because we’re not watching sports, films consisting largely of T&A, car chases and films rife with mindless dialogue from the likes of Sly Stallone and Arnold “I’ll be baaaack” Swarzeneger (sp?) or re-runs of Happy Days.
As for Snooki….puleeze…there are enough skanks running around Halifax fouling the air without my wanting to watch their role models on the telly!
@tommyjules902 – Yes, I get what you’re saying. However, “being in a relationship” for me does not necessarily mean that I would have to give up the single life. A person can be committed to another without sacrificing one’s independence or by living together. I have a fine group of long-term friends, both male and female, a male companion/lover who adores being with me and appreciates me in every way. He is comfortable living alone and so am I. Having both been through the mill and around the block, so to speak, we both realize that “being single” does not mean the same thing now as it did when we were much younger and high emotions and rampant hormones ruled.
Women are better at being single than men IME. They seem to have a stronger network of friends for support. It seems again like the female side are celebrating their singlehood on this string moreso than the men.