Happy Miserable Singles Awareness Day!

[Ohshucksiforgotourname]

Happy Miserable Singles Awareness Day to all! Anybody who is generally romantically unlucky or inept, please feel free to vent your frustration here.

Here's mine:

I am a 34-year-old straight male who has never been married, because I don't know how to get from the friend stage to the romantic stage, and whenever I try to make the jump (i.e. from friends to romantic interest), the woman always pulls the "let's just be friends" line, or something similar to the same effect, on me, effectively shooting me down in mid-air, so to speak.

[UCUMAY]

Maybe you're attracted to the the women you cannot have?

Anyway I was okay spending v day by myself. I spent it eating chocolate and watching chick flicks.

[Mushet]

What an appropriate site to host this, atleast it's not some kind of hipster antivalentine's day bash like I saw a sign for, fucking hipsters

[Dakini]

If you want to get from the "friend stage" to the "relationship stage" try not letting yourself get into the friend stage to begin with. Meet someone, ask for their number and make your intentions clear from the beginning. You'll get rejected more, but you'll get rejected faster so you can move on and stop pining over your friends who think you just want their friendship the way they just want your friendship.

Oh, and you might want to learn to be happy being single. Women tend to find desperation very unattractive.

I'm not single, but I'm in an extremely long distance relationship. I'll probably do my nails and send my bf an email about what I'd do to him if he was in the same city.

[UCUMAY]

Meet someone, ask for their number and make your intentions clear from the beginning.
Oh, and you might want to learn to be happy being single. Women tend to find desperation very unattractive.

I agree with this. It's better when both parties know the wants and expectations.

[Buffett and Colbert]

ohaider

Fuck this shit.

[Dakini]

Meet someone, ask for their number and make your intentions clear from the beginning.
Oh, and you might want to learn to be happy being single. Women tend to find desperation very unattractive.

I agree with this. It's better when both parties know the wants and expectations.

I think life is just generally nicer when people are honest with each other.

[Barringtonia]

I'm putting together the jigsaw of a relationship for which today is a pretty handy piece. Normally, whether dating or not, I tend to dislike Valentine's. If dating I always feel that unless one really pushes the boat out it will generally be a disappointment and if not dating then it's a 'should I just go on a date regardless or not' sort of thing because, really, I hate leading people on.

However today is perfect since I don't particularly have to do much except the right thing.

Also, I'd add that it's no better to know that someone really likes you but have to decline.

[Gidgetisms]

single, never been in a relationship. So yeah

[Mosasauria]

My girlfriend broke up with me two weeks ago, then got everyone at my high school to turn against me by spreading rumors.

[Pancakes Wrath]

I'm actually glad I'm single this time around. So much easier to not have to expect a man to do all this shit for me.

I mean, buying me chocolate is nice, but he should do that every day.

okay, kidding, but still, I find that guys are expected to do all of this expensive/embarassing shit for girlfriends... yeah, pass, let's just hang out, eat chocolate, and have sex.

[Ohshucksiforgotourname]

Oh, and you might want to learn to be happy being single. Women tend to find desperation very unattractive.

I have tried this, but I cannot manage to achieve such an attitude. I absolutely cannot get past my need for companionship, no matter how hard I try.

Maybe you're attracted to the the women you cannot have?

Yes, in many cases women I find myself attracted to are already taken, and those are the ones I usually get attached to because they're a lot nicer to me ( ) than eligible bachelorettes are.

I just wish I could find an eligible bachelorette who would have as pleasant an attitude toward me as married women do.

[Gidgetisms]

Oh, and you might want to learn to be happy being single. Women tend to find desperation very unattractive.

I have tried this, but I cannot manage to achieve such an attitude. I absolutely cannot get past my need for companionship, no matter how hard I try.

Maybe you're attracted to the the women you cannot have?

Yes, in many cases women I find myself attracted to are already taken, and those are the ones I usually get attached to because they're a lot nicer to me ( ) than eligible bachelorettes are.

I just wish I could find an eligible bachelorette who would have as pleasant an attitude toward me as married women do.

where do you meet these women?

[Sun Aut Ex]

I like to think that I'm "post-relationship"; that I no longer desire or require romantic or sexual relationships. I'm probably wrong though.

[Barringtonia]

Yes, in many cases women I find myself attracted to are already taken, and those are the ones I usually get attached to because they're a lot nicer to me ( ) than eligible bachelorettes are.

The difference is probably you, because they're taken you treat them normally.

[Saiwania]

I'm not unhappy with being single for the moment but basically, I'm a 21 year old male virgin who has never really dated out of choice. I had an opportunity in high school to take this girl out to a dance, but I told her no because at the time I just wanted to play video games and escape from reality- being depressed. While I'm still a loner, I actually have some goals and motivation so far as to what I want to do.

I'm currently only focused on obtaining a more marketable career skill, which is (among some other things) learning a current computer programming language, as part of my Associate's degree program in Computer Engineering. I'm not going to Bachelor's because I won't have the money to. My stint in college is purely for the career training. My priority before anything else, is economic stability.

I was born middle class, but there is no guarantee that I'll be able to live the lifestyle I'd want. However, I'm not going to blame my situation on anything but myself. My future is up to me.

[Dakini]

Oh, and you might want to learn to be happy being single. Women tend to find desperation very unattractive.

I have tried this, but I cannot manage to achieve such an attitude. I absolutely cannot get past my need for companionship, no matter how hard I try.

You have friends, yes? There's companionship.

Learn to be happy being single and you'll find someone who will end your singledom. I found this annoying a lot of the time, but if I'm in a good relationship, I'm also happy so it works.

[Frenequesta]

Support the 'miserable' singles by all means, just don't count me in to it. I'll say out of the troubles.

[Meryuma]

What an appropriate site to host this, atleast it's not some kind of hipster antivalentine's day bash like I saw a sign for, fucking hipsters

I'm a hipster, got a problem with it?

Anyways, I'm neither miserable nor would I describe myself as single.

[Norstal]

When you're single, you have all the time to yourself. IT'S ALL MINE!

[Alexlantis]

I'm a Freshman in high school. I never really had any major crushes on girls except this one time this year where, from the beginning of the school year, there was this new girl who was a redhead. Beautiful girl, funny, nice, and she could speak on my level, more or less. I had this huge crush on her and was trying to get up the nerve to tell her, but somewhere around the start of Football season she figured it out the day before I was going to ask her out. She said we could still be friends, but I was kinda broken about the whole thing. She finished the first semester and, after winter break, moved to another high school. I haven't seen her since.

[Alexlantis]

I'm a Freshman in high school. I never really had any major crushes on girls except this one time this year where, from the beginning of the school year, there was this new girl who was a redhead. Beautiful girl, funny, nice, and she could speak on my level, more or less. I had this huge crush on her and was trying to get up the nerve to tell her, but somewhere around the start of Football season she figured it out the day before I was going to ask her out. She said we could still be friends, but I was kinda broken about the whole thing. She finished the first semester and, after winter break, moved to another high school. I haven't seen her since.

So, yeah, long story short, girls are confusing. Even if they get you and you think you get them, you find out that there's a complex code to them that seems to change right when you're making progress figuring them out.

[Diseased Imaginings]

Miserable Singles Awareness Day? hmm...

I've never paid any attention to February 14, simply because, as weird as it sounds, I'm rarely attracted to people. As long as I have steady company of friends, I rarely ever feel "alone", or needing of a romantic involvement.

This year, however, there is somebody I'd like to be with. Unfortunately, even though we're both obviously interested in each other, she is a minor, and I'm not. Damn you California statutory rape laws...

[The Parkus Empire]

Happy Miserable Singles Awareness Day to all! Anybody who is generally romantically unlucky or inept, please feel free to vent your frustration here.

Here's mine:

I am a 34-year-old straight male who has never been married, because I don't know how to get from the friend stage to the romantic stage, and whenever I try to make the jump (i.e. from friends to romantic interest), the woman always pulls the "let's just be friends" line, or something similar to the same effect, on me, effectively shooting me down in mid-air, so to speak.

Mister...that jump is rarely made. If you have a romantic interest in a girl, you shouldn't "try to be friends"; you should ask her out right off the bat. The whole "friends" thing is a fucking no go. No fucking go. Go fucking no. Fucking go no.

[Gidgetisms]

Happy Miserable Singles Awareness Day to all! Anybody who is generally romantically unlucky or inept, please feel free to vent your frustration here.

Here's mine:

I am a 34-year-old straight male who has never been married, because I don't know how to get from the friend stage to the romantic stage, and whenever I try to make the jump (i.e. from friends to romantic interest), the woman always pulls the "let's just be friends" line, or something similar to the same effect, on me, effectively shooting me down in mid-air, so to speak.

Mister...that jump is rarely made. If you have a romantic interest in a girl, you shouldn't "try to be friends"; you should ask her out right off the bat. The whole "friends" thing is a fucking no go. No fucking go. Go fucking no. Fucking go no.

Go no fuck?