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Admit It: Do You Hate It When Your Single Friend Finds Love?

SodaHead Living 2012/04/09 18:00:00
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We have to admire a writer for How About We coming clean about something almost everybody feels but hardly anyone admits: It stinks when your single pal finds new love. "Deep, terrible confession time: sometimes I really think it sucks when one of my girl friends gets a boyfriend. So selfish, I know!" the writer confesses.

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We've been there, and we know she's right. Suddenly, your Saturday night playmate is unavailable. Your wingman or wingwoman is paired off -- you're on your own in the dating world. And often, you're on your own, period.

"When I’m single, my fellow single ladies can feel like my lifeboat. They’re the ones who are always up for spontaneous nights out, the ones who will engage self-deprecating banter about spinsterhood, the ones I can freely text on a random night because I’m fairly sure that they, like me, are sitting around their apartment watching TV, too," the writer confesses.

But once your pal gets into a serious relationship, he or she tends to be M.I.A. As the writer for the article puts it, "...suddenly she only ever wants to hang out during the day: brunch, or lunch, or coffee. Because weekend nights are usually exclusively for him. And if you do manage to drag her out at night, she won’t have the same abandon she did when she was single. She’ll seem slightly distracted, she’ll check her phone a lot, she’ll yawn and want to head home way earlier than she ever used to."

So sad, but so true. Do you feel abandoned when your single friends pair off? Or are you genuinely happy for them?

Read More: http://www.howaboutwe.com/date-report/it-sometimes...

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  • Melizmatic 2012/04/09 21:49:57
    No
    Melizmatic
    +11
    >>>"We've been there, and we know she's right."<<<

    Sounds like you're just a bunch of self-absorbed haters, to me.

    *shrugs

    I'm genuinely happy for my friends when they find love, regardless of my own romantic status.

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  • alex 2012/04/09 18:39:35
    Yes
    alex
    but you see, their definition of LOVE is completly different. you see, they get love confused with lust. every. single. relationship. im only refering to the moron ones in that case, but for the mature ones im always happy for them!!! so yes and no i suppose
  • Grammar Freak 2012/04/09 18:31:05
    No
    Grammar Freak
    What the world needs now, is love, sweet love... it's the only thing that there's just too little of!
  • Jess 2012/04/09 18:13:45
    No
    Jess
    Well, it depends. Only if it's all they constantly talk about.
  • Rave 2012/04/09 18:04:07
    Yes
    Rave
    +3
    I don't hate it, but usually that has marked the end of the friendship for us. I was pretty close friends with this one person until she got a boyfriend, suddenly we barely saw each other, eventually they broke up but our friendship has never been at the same level.

    This kind of thing happens often, I was also pretty close with my sister until she found someone.

    I'm just not good at keeping in touch, and often when I'm not in the top priority list anymore, I start to become distant.
  • catrina 2012/04/09 17:56:44
    Yes
    catrina
    I can never get a date and she does and she ain't prittier than me
  • Elisa ✦ Knockout™ 2012/04/09 17:51:25
    No
    Elisa ✦ Knockout™
    Sodahead living why don't you ever give an alternative opinion besides yes or no? Anyways i feel bad when they there and single and i'm with someone.
  • darlene 2012/04/09 17:49:55
    No
    darlene
    Blessings to them.
  • Tommy 2012/04/09 17:49:55
    No
    Tommy
    +1
    He was wooking poor nub in aww da wong pwaces...
  • Treasure ♥ijm♥ 2012/04/09 17:47:06
    No
    Treasure ♥ijm♥
    +4
    No, I am honestly happy for them to have found love. I think it is great! :)
  • Sister Jean 2012/04/09 17:45:00
  • NiallHoran'sWife 2012/04/09 17:44:09
    Yes
    NiallHoran'sWife
  • themadhare ~IJM 2012/04/09 17:42:37
    No
    themadhare ~IJM
    +3
    not at all....much happiness to them

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