#becauseican

[ctfd_ricochey]

My ex and I are awash in a sea of happy couples, dysfunctional but lasting ones, friends having babies, and people getting married for inexplicable reasons. To be quite blunt and short, even though I'm in a relationship, we feel like the only single people standing.

We recently decided to print off shirts that say "Why?" on the front. On that back

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[ctfd_ricochey]

I feel your comment so hard.

I love my boyfriend, but the obligation to partake in their holidays is already starting to turn from pleasant to stressful for me. This is mostly because I don't know anymore if they even like me. I think they're just going through motions.

I wanna be able to say, "I have two things I wanna do this holiday. I wanna eat and I wanna drink. If you come over and spend the night in bed with me, I'll leave out the drinking. You in or what?" But here's the thing. That is not how people who appreciate familial love behave. That's how people who are strong and independent and don't need no man behave, and maybe I'm strong and I'm far more independent than I used to be, but I love the guy. Shouldn't I wanna be with him and his happy ass family? GARGH.

This year especially, I feel deeply judged for behaving like a single woman of 27 while actually being a woman of 27 in a long term relationship. Why do you have to change the way you like your life just to date someone?

Fortunately, none of this pressure is coming

[ctfd_ricochey]

I have a friend who is obsessed with the idea of travel. She wants to go everywhere and see everything. I tend to be more of a make-the-most-of-home person. I want to dig into the grooves of my current environment and pull the hidden shiny items from between the cushions.