Lara M
Single, Attached...is there a *greener* side?
September 27th 2007 21:44
Typically singles would like to be coupled-up. The idea of a good constant companion and someone to grow grey with, along with the white picket fence has been the picture perfect scenario exploited to the max by corporations selling from insurance to food. So why isn’t singlehood celebrated as such?
In a world where the divorce rate is rising every second, perhaps there’s much more to celebrate being single.
(I’m sure there are more but…) The many reasons to celebrate about being single…
- Being able to wander around naked at home
- Hitting the town, and assuming a cool-life – perhaps like celebrities...
- Having a cool car instead of a people-mover or a station-wagon!
- Indulging in mind-blowing intimacies…
- Having all the cupboard space in the bathroom without someone telling you, ‘you have too many toiletries/make-up!’
- Trying new stuff/ideas,visiting new places
…and just to keep it balanced, the just as many reasons to celebrate being coupled…
- Sharing your colourful personality with another
- Having someone catch/hunt and cook for you
- Enjoying movies and life together
- Getting someone to listen to your
- Not having to doll up so much
- Having someone explain why a bunch of grown men grovel over a
teeny ball!
Regardless, it’s probably best to live in the moment and to open your heart.
So…really, is it greener on the other side of the relationship fence?
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Comment by James Rickard
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Check this out...
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Comment by katyzzz
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Mind blowing intimacies wear off.
Marry Mr. genuinely nice person, with a few blimps, we all have them.
Mr. lives in the neighbourhood might do. I'm looking, but I've had my turn, and I'm not sure that I'm seriously looking.
Trouble is I like good looking men with plenty going for them, but I don't mind similar age, in other words they have to be 'age adjusted'
Don't run around too hard searching for that crock of gold at the end of the rainbow, you may just end up with a leprechaun.
katyzzz
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p/s...the leprechaun may be disguised as a prince <giggle...>
Thanks, Cibb -- sharing the loOOOve around <giggle...> Would've like to put a few more, but... this took FOREVER -- plus my broadband dropped out (yes, AGAIN!) halfway posting! Nearly had a heart-attack...!
HAPPY Friday y'all...
Comment by KylieW
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Great post Lara
Comment by Michaelie
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Nice Lara,
Michaelie
Comment by The MacDaddy
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Personally, I think the increased alcohol consumption...
...and ability to leave a pizza to fester for a week and then eat it....
Leaves the single male with a decidely greenish hue.
On the other hand, having to deal with tampons, child birth and Bridal magazines induces a similar reaction in the taken man.
Hold on...this was metaphorical not literal? Gadzooks! Foiled by my imagination again!
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Comment by D. Armenta
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Jeez, some of you make "settling down" sound like what happens when you tie an anchor around your neck in deep water!
Marriage can be great if you ignore convention, you know. You can have separate bedrooms: then you can both snore, fart, talk in your sleep and thrash around to your heart's content as well as having your own space to furnish with your own stuff. Sex is right down the hall when you want it.
If you don't trust the person you pledged to spend the rest of your life with enough to go out on the town with his friends once in awhile, or he doesn't trust you enough, then you shouldn't be married.
Whoever started the idea that getting married meant giving up personal freedom or losing your own identity should get a boot to the head.
That doesn't happen unless you have children. Anyone with half a brain knows that and makes the choice to have kids knowing that in advance.
Yeah, right.
Comment by Lara M
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Funny, Michalie
Ha! MacDaddy...very imaginative and creative. Don't forget about tossing the beer cans around
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I like the idea of a soul mate...
Yep, it is interesting to hear the many different views on singlehood and coupled out there, D.
I think to each their own, as each couple/person is different...
I agree with you, marriage is great when the convention ignored - if it suits the couple. People trying to shove their own 5-year plan on to other people's lives should also be ignored...!
Comment by Ash
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Great idea for a post! I like how you managed to connect everything togther - thanks for the link
I reckon D has got it - being in a relationship doesn`t have to mean that you give up being who you are - I can never understand how girls all of a sudden stop their men from their regular activities with 'the boys' because they are in a relationship now - and the same with men who do it to their girlfriends.
It`s like you have to stop being yourself and all of a sudden become this new person.... pah! I suppose you just have to find someone who hasn`t stereotyped love to make it work, either which way you should just be able to carrying on being yourself - isn`t that part of love?
Ash
Comment by Lilla
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I have to echo my orble-sisters here... and with the exception of a couple components you've listed, I still have all of the other qualities in my life, despite being married for 16 years.
Unfortunately though, the few I don't have are really important .. sometimes making hte other things look frivilous ... but I'm working on it. *chuckle*
Intersting post.
Lilla ...
Comment by Lara M
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Yea, I hear u. I have friends on both ends of the spectrum - and sometimes it seems one or the other in that relationship has undergone a personality change...and the answer I get is 'Oh we're married now'... <roll of eyes...>
That's great, Lilla. ...and that's how I think it should be. You're still your own person either way...single or married.