It’s not easy being a single person in a couple’s world. You can’t buy a single bed, because they are too small, yet a queen-size bed leaves you wondering what to do with that other pillowcase that comes with the set. Your toothbrush holder taunts you with its extra space. Even the car serves as a reminder that your passenger seat, like your life, is empty. Food won’t do away this bereft feeling either; you can’t go to your favorite restaurant because there are no tables for one (sushi bars being a generous exception). And, while having sex with yourself is safer than doing it with someone else, it’s just not quite as satisfying.
It’s enough to make you want to… be in a relationship.
So, you couple.
And that is where your problems begin, because relationships are hard. Like, Rubik’s Cube hard. They require communication and patience and gifts, worse, they require dinner with your lover’s family, or your boyfriend’s female “friend” who doesn’t talk except to tell you how she graduated from the same college as your lover (…) Yes, relationships are ridiculously hard. In fact, most of the time, you’re so desperate not to be single again that you find you’re clinging to a dead shark.
3 comentarios:
Really hope you can get rid of those sharks...
seems everyone want to see us with a couple all right, but couples have it hard either: once you are in a strong and longlasting relationship, everyone wonders why is that you haven't got kids!
jajajaja q smart anónimo.
por lo que me resta decir: been there, done that...SO many times.
UFFF... ya estaba calentando las tres neuronas anglófonas que todavía no se me han muerto de inanición, cuando me di cuenta de que podía comentar en español y aun así ser comprendido.
Cuando la "locha emocional" me baja a unos niveles tolerables y salgo con alguien que me guste, me encuentro con que todo con esa persona es maravilloso hasta que su círculo social entra en escena, tal y como lo sentencia el artículo. Con razón dicen los psicólogos que uno no se va a la cama sólo con su pareja, sino también con sus padres, sus amigos, sus amigas, sus compañeros de trabajo, sus ex novios, y un laaaargo etc. Pero bueno, toca buscar a alguien que nos guste TAAANTO, que siga siendo buen negocio aguantarse a esa larga cola de gente que arrastra consigo.
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