Single Bashing
Me: I'm very happy for you, your new wife is beautiful.
D: Thanks, now we have to find you someone, I have the perfect person in mind, he's an attorney and ...
Me: Let me stop you right there, not interested.
D: But you really need someone to make you happy
Me:But I'm alreday happy
D: But you cant truly be happy alone.
Me: Correction, you can't truly be happy alone, I'm not you.
D: I was happy alone but now I'm at a new level of happiness, I want you to experience it too!
Me: Are you kidding me? Please, you were on match.com, singles.com, yahoo.com, you paid for that service called 'It's just lunch', you went on power dating weekends, and I might add as the recipient of your long, heartfelt speeches, my ears are painfully aware, to the point of bleeding, how miserable you have been for the 5 years you've been single. So please sell that to someone who doesnt know you. Oh and please stop trying to elevate yourself beyond a level of happiness you understand.
D: Ok thats true but I want you to feel complete.
Me: I am complete
D: No, I mean the bliss of being able to share your life with someone.
Me: I have that, I call them friends.
D: No, I mean someone special
Me:They are all special.
D: I mean really special.
Me: LOL, look, I'm happy for us both, we both have what we need.
Sheesh, some people just don't get it.
Labels: Rant
posted by Jim at 7:20 PM
23 Comments:
Got to love it, don't ya? BTW I can't wait to here where you end up - careerwise!
8:41 PM
Yeah, I don't like it when people have an agenda like that. We all take different paths to happiness, there's no formula to it really.
7:56 AM
Josh, I think I'll tolerate it but love it, probably not, lol :)
8:45 AM
I know Jason, and when he was single his mission was to promote "all relationships are crap", equally false :)
8:46 AM
What a horrendous conversation to have to have had! Sounds like somethign out of "Company"
2:10 PM
One of the most insulting a "coupled" friend of mine ever said to me when I had started seeing someone was "I'm so happy you found someone." As if he wasn't capable of being happy for me as a single person. Or as if I wasn't capable of finding someone. It all just kind of makes you want to punch the married folks in the face.
8:38 PM
You know, my friends try to set me up. Only they don't know I'm gay. And so I get set up on "dates" with girls I'll never call.
9:58 PM
Hey there Jim Darlin', I know just what you are a goin' through. Friends an' family (not to mention my loved ones) is always tryin' to fix me up with some big, handsome hunk of man (on account of my Glamorous beauty an' all) it gets so tirein'...
Huggs, etc... Bunny Lynn
10:50 PM
He is almost as bad as Nu-skin or Amway. Is this guy part of some pyramid dating scheme?
6:42 AM
David, I'd rather talk about politics with a Republican, lol (no offense dad! :))
7:21 AM
LOL, Skipper. I don't feel like punching anyone but I agree, coupled people need to stop being threatened by single people being happy. It reeks of insecurity.
7:31 AM
John, thats tough. I find with repeated "no, bad friend, stop that" obedience training, you can get your friends to stop that :)
Seriously, most of my friends have stopped doing that to me since I react so negatively to the situation. Only one set, the lovely lesbians, still throw one at me every once in while.
7:54 AM
LOL, Bunn Bunn, well that'll learn you to be so glamourously, beadazzledly attractive! :)
8:00 AM
Gavin, I think he is like alot of people; they want you to be exactly like them. Don't get me wrong, he is a good person but I've seen the pattern - "be like me so I can justify my own choices"
8:07 AM
right on! give it to 'em.
8:49 AM
Grrrr! I did Rachel. Unfortunately it will take another 100 times before it registers, lol :)
9:32 AM
Let me guess... Female? Breeder?
I'm lucky to not have anyone like that around me.
Some people will never understand how others can be happy and content with their own company or the company they choose.
...it's often the media and our culture that sees to that.
9:56 AM
Scott, in this case male, hetero but the worst offenders of my friends are two lesbians. I love them all but I'm starting to think some people are simply unable to grasp the concept of being single AND happy. They aren't mutally exclusive.
10:02 AM
Happy VDay to you too Josh!
4:09 PM
and if that guy doesn't work out, I've got a friend...
LOL
7:52 PM
Steve, please send your friend to:
Jim
c/o Kimmie Il
PO Box, North Korea
Thanks! lol
8:37 PM
Damn, but what about Home Depot Guy?
I thought he was bed-share worthy!
OMG, you aren't a cat person are you? They will find your dehydrated body weeks later in the rocking chair facing the T.V. with 20 cats fouling the apartment meowing for food....
I do have to agree with you a bit. If you can't be happy by yourself, why on earth would you think it is someone else's resonsibility to make you happy just by being together?
7:34 PM
Exactly JC! Oh HD Guy moved to NYC and I am dog person but dont currently own one :)
8:04 PM
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