Tick tock, tick tock!

Since I have hit the dirty thirties it has become apparent to me that people think a lot of things are their business when they are in fact, NOT! It appals me how many people feel it is appropriate to ask such mundane questions as "How's yer love life?", and "Met anyone special yet?". I remember attending my fathers retirement dinner and meeting a lovely woman that I chatted with over dinner. At one point in the evening she asked me in a quiet whisper if I had a nice boyfriend. When I answered in the negative she looked at me like I was the most pathetic little puppy ever and then said "Well, it will happen!" She never bothered to ask me if I wanted "it" to happen or where I stood in life without this apparent necessity. She never bothered to ask me if I was happy being on my own and never once did she consider that it was actually my choice.

The truth is, more and more women are choosing a life of solitude as they also decide to fulfill their goals without a man by their side. In fact, there has been a rather large increase in single women taking out mortgages to buy a house. Much like me, it seems they have decided they are more than capable of achieving these joys in life without having to put up with the same man in their bed night after night. Now please don't misunderstand. I love it when my best girls find great men that they want to marry and have kids with, and if someone worth while happens to appear in my life I'm not going to send them packing just on principal, but I refuse to go out searching for this life when there are so many other things I could be doing to better myself and my situation.

What truly baffles me is why anyone would think it was any of their business as to my relationship status. In retaliation I have come up with some prepared answers to nosy family members and friends who seem to think it is acceptable to humiliate and probe into a single woman's life.

Question:

How's your love life?

Answer:

It's exactly where I want it to be, thank you.

or a more shocking answer, to be used strictly in response to one of your mothers friends:

It's so hard to find a quality woman these days. Wink Wink


Question:

Why haven't you found a nice man yet?

Answer:

Are you still having sex with your husband?

Question:

Don't you think you should find a nice husband before your biological clock starts ticking?

Answer:

My clock malfunctioned when I saw how ugly your kids are.

Hope these help my fellow singles out there.