I dunno if my experiences are any similar, but certainly frustrating. I do remember finishing a conversation on the phone with my grandma and crying afterwards. I was in college in Minnesota and she kept asking me about guys. I wanted to talk about my exciting life in art college and the stuff I was doing, and she wanted to keep asking me about guys. I was doing some neat and exciting stuff that I've wanted to do since I was little and going to school so I could be a really excellent highly-trained and talented artist. But none of that seemed to matter if I didn't have anything to say about guys.
You're not a failure for being single. Hell, Rowdy's uncle Del didn't get married until he was in his fourties! People need to stop equating success with being in a relationship....probably why there are so many people in unhappy relationships of all sorts - it's because they rush off to get involved. :P *hugs*
I think you are looking at it wrong from the perspective of your parents. I think that though it might be phrased in a way that rubs, what they are really saying is that they are afraid that you are going to end up alone. My mother has expressed much the same feelings. That she is afraid that as she ages she is going to leave me alone and that I won't have anyone. It's not mean spirited it's simply the idea that the parent wishes for their child what they had. A lifelong partner that can comfort and care for when they are not there to do it for you.
Actually . . .whyayloohAugust 23 2007, 05:54:34 UTC
. . . I did say that I understood that my parents were simply concerned for me, so I do have the perspective right. I know they weren't trying to be mean. (I'm really not THAT clueless.) Just something about it just rubbed me wrong. Might just be that it's just so rare for my father to speak up like that, that it sort of made the opinion a strong one. Or it could just be that it did strike a bit of a nerve. Anyway, we did exchange some letters and got things straightened out, agreed to disagree on a few items -- such as having anyone there being better than having no one -- and got some nice dialogue going. :)
If I'd met and gotten to know you before Kiefer (and ignoring the wanting-children thing, since I'm militantly childfree ;)), I'd totally have asked you out! =) You ARE attractive, fun, and refreshingly normal while still being interested in the furry scene - there really aren't enough folks like you in the fandom
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Games usually do eat up the majority of one's free time. I never got anything done when I was playing Earth and Beyond. x__x I would like to play the new Star Trek game once it comes out but I'm afraid it'll eat into my life as well. Sometimes I think about finding a nice, free online game or playing in MUCKs again but I know that I probably shouldn't
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