Poll: How Happy Are You Being Single?

[Shifty]

Three serious relationships in my life and I have come to the following conclusion for me anyway.

When you are going out with someone the good times are so much better but the bad times are so much worse.

Right now I am single and happy. It gives me time to catch up with friends and do things I want to do without checking with someone else. I am also currently in the process of getting to know a new girl that I like so maybe something will come from that but I am not putting myself under any pressure.

 

[Sarge034]

So I've been single for a long time and up until recently, I was content to be so. I won't say happy, but content.

So why is "content" not an option in your poll? I would have probably picked that, but I guess I'll have to pick happy.


You see these? These are tears of JOY.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Single?

What's that?

>Been in a relationship with the same girl since he was 15. Is now 24.

Yes. I'm a charismatic stallion.

 

[joshuaayt]

Perfectly so. I could do with more friends, but I sure as hell don't want a partner.

 

[launchpadmcqwak]

i want to be in a relationship, but i always want out after a while

 

[DanielBrown]

Kind of. I sometimes miss being in a relationship, but I've had more than my fair share of women. I'd probably just mess it up as usual.
Always get annoyed after a few weeks and start to find the most silly reasons to break up. Guess I'm more of a one night stand kind of guy.

 

[The Funslinger]

newly single and until recently was experiencing what could only be described as soul crushing despair because i was until recently happily engaged...and then she left me...for someone else...and within a month they were engaged...and i live with them...yeaaaaaaah but now im talking to a girl who i dated briefly a few years ago and that might work out

Good luck, man!

OT: Been single for quite a while now, with various levels of coping. Recently got off with a girl at a party (I was drunk, she was sober, and quite understanding when I got her name wrong!) Obviously random party make out =/= relationship, but we spent the rest of the party together and all that jazz and I have her number, so I'll definitely call her!

 

[MercurySteam]

I want love so bad. But it's impossible.

I'm always seeing you as the first to respond in these types of threads, and then I find myself proceeding to agree with you every time.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

I tend to be pretty unhappy either way. But when I'm in relationships I at least feel fairly content with life. I need something to do with my time that doesn't feel futile...

 

[hawkeye52]

even the idea of a woman being romantically interested in me is a profound violation of logic and sense. If a woman ever engaged in a relationship with me, the universe would spontaneously collapse.

Fucking love that line.

I did have a girlfriend but she was to clingy and what might be reffered to as a type C child in psychology (i.e. falls in love easily, incredibly clingy, massively needy). I think what it was that a boyfriend is meant to be a support to help you like friends are but a stronger one. Instead she took that for granted and tried to base her entire life on me and not in the way that she would do whatever I want but in the way that unless I helped her she couldn't do anything or solve anything by herself. I'm glad to be out of that one especially when she cheated on me because I started giving her the cold shoulder on these issues of mindblowing urgency. Like getting on MSN just so that she could say "snuggle" to me -.-'.

Also I don't think girls are particularly interested in me because of my nature to sometimes prioritise games over people (only happens once every so often if something new is happening). Also I'm not the best looking of blokes I guess with all these damn spots on my face

 

[ms_sunlight]

Here's the thing: I don't know. I've been in one relationship or another constantly since I turned 18, so I've never been single as an adult. (I'm one of those women who had another prospect lined up for when i was ready to jump ship when I was younger, I've been in the same LTR since those days.)

I do think it's important to be happy and self-actualised within yourself, regardless of relationship status.

 

[Phasmal]

Snip

I saw this and was like `bwuh?`.
Forgive me, but some of your other posts I've seen certainly don't suggest someone who WANTS to be with a woman.

As for myself, been with my boyfriend nearly 3 years, happy. I think it was probably easier for me being a nerdy girl finding someone who was into the same stuff as me that I could connect with.

 

[Yopaz]

I am happy being single. Would I be happier if I wasn't? Possibly, but as it is I am happy that I can be as selfish as I want and do the things I want to do when I want to do them. I also know that I wouldn't be able to keep a relationship going for more than a couple months at best.

 

[Xenowolf]

I'm not exactly happy to be single, but I don't really mind it either. There just aren't really many girls that interest me, I s'pose.

 

[Daymo]

Ehh if you had asked before last night, I would have said I'm perfectly happy being single, but spending the whole night with a good friend and their girlfriend going out to clubs made me kinda pissed at being single, it will probably pass soon enough or I'll finally put a lot of effort into trying to find someone.

 

[Astoria]

I'm in a relationship and completely happy but I can see why people will be happy single. Some people are fine with being on their own and enjoy the freedom of not having a partner that they need approval from. When you're own your own you find out who you really are and some people need that. After a while though I think nearly everyone gets to a point where they're ready to be with someone.

 

[Hosker]

Not happy or unhappy - more content. Sometimes I do want one but that doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

 

[lRookiel]

Not too bothered I guess. being single has it's advantages as someone else has pointed out, I get to do what I want, keep more of my money and not have to go in womens clothing stores O.O

Would I like to be in a relationship? Yes.

Am I going to do anything about it? Probably not.

 

[Thaliur]

I'm absolutely dissatisfied with being single. Actually, perhaps "single" isn't the way to describe myself; even the idea of a woman being romantically interested in me is a profound violation of logic and sense. If a woman ever engaged in a relationship with me, the universe would spontaneously collapse.

This, of course, is the fate of somebody who considers a nice, relaxing (!) weekend to involve installing and trying out Version 7 Unix on a PDP-11 simulator. Very few women consider this an endearing characteristic; none would put up with the full collection of my interests and hobbies.

Don't give up. It can happen. I know that from experience.

While my girlfriend doesn't exactly share most of my interests, I am allowed to go diving into system internals and messing aroud with any kind of technology I can find. Currently I'm starting to work on microcontrollers. She doesn't see their immediate appeal, but so far, my universal home remote isn't finished...

OT: I've been single for most of my life. Most of the time I was OK with it. I had many friends I really liked (females too), and the only thing that really bothered me about being single was the lack of readily available cuddling. Also, I found that it's easier for me to bring up the motivation for studying or finding a job if I can keep telling myself "I have to get this done, she relies on me!".

 

[Random Fella]

Wait... Why if you're single do you either have to be 'Happy' or 'Unhappy'?
I'm not happy nor unhappy to be single, I don't really mind too much, I am complacent with the fact that I am currently single.
Of course i'd prefer not to be single, but my standards of woman are far to high to find a reasonable partner where I live.