Thanks to a wonderful suggestion from Looseseal, I'm here to give you all a chance to share your comebacks for the most frustrating question asked when you're single: Why don't you have a boyfriend? Not only does that question put us on the spot, but no answer ever seems good enough when the reality is just that we haven't met the right person yet! So ladies, have at it and tell me how you respond to such questions.
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Yea...i am picky...so when I am single it's because I want MORE out of a relationship
1I don't have time! I work 60 hours a week and I have family and tons of friends that i hardly ever get to see. Seriously! No time! - People seem to understand that one and don't further question me.
2"I have high standards."
3I have a couple of responses, and they all work for me pretty well...
1. I don't want one. - that usually shuts people up because i just dont LOL
42. No one wants me. - People usually say: aww... that's no true. and feel sorry for me. then leave me alone because they don't know how to respond to that - mission accomplished!
Oh, I'm not single I just look that way to you because you're looking at me through your eyes.
That usually just confused them and they walked away.
5This is a good question... I am single because:
61.) I'm a college student who has lost all social skills because I am too busy reading Oscar Wilde and other literature to be able to function in the real world..lol
2.) I'm an English major.. reading and writing is my life right now.
3.) I'm too stressed and narotic to even want to bring somebody into my mess of a life.
4.)(Tomoatoshirt, i have to steal this because it pertains to me too lol) Nobody wants me.
5.) Then again, I don't necessarily want anybody.
6.) I like being single, at times.. it gives me a chance to realize who I truly am.
7.) And lastly, I'm single because.. I just am.
Because I'm waiting to meet a man...
7Because your man is already taken.
8I usually just say "I'm picky".
9I ask, "What you don't my man standing right here?" (he's invisable) that usually gets them confused. Or I say "Yeah, I dont need a man to realize that I have issues."
10"I date to marry."
that usually works.
11"I won't have sex unless I'm married." Watch their faces...Ohhhhh.
12Answering a question with a question:
Why does it matter?
The belittling answer:
I know Disney tells us romance should be every woman's ultimate life goal, but there is more to life than that.
The disingenuous answer:
Come on, now, it's inappropriate for you to come onto me.
The TMI answer:
Well, I have B.O.B. - Battery operated boyfriend.
The long answer:
If I can have a few hours of your time, I'll tell you every single one of my hundreds of reasons. Starting with the time I caught my father with a mistress... then there are the tells of the wicked monster-in-laws... then this girl I know caught an STI from her boyfriend... Oh, and the horror story of the guy who ended up being a stalker...
The totally serious answer:
13Having a boyfriend would put a monkey-wrench in my life-goal of becoming the neighborhood crazy cat lady who brandishes a huge shotgun and yells at kids to get off the lawn.
I AM in a relationship...with Satan. He owns me body and soul.
14Answer: Why are you asking, are you writing a book? Make it a mystery.
That always puts an end to the Q&A session.
15CYL: please stop telling your man to stop calling me every Friday night!! I said NO! LOL
16laughing, D*it
....
17please tell your man to stop calling me...
I get asked alot because I don't wear my wedding ring at work and I have pictures of my seven year old son all over my office.
My reply: Oh I need a baby daddy... you know anybody that likes Mommies?
18I have no control over that sorry Mesayme....he says we are in an 'open relationship' ...lol
19I usually go with 'no one wants me' pretty much stops too many intrusive questions.
20my answers:
"Just lucky, i guess."
"i'm just waiting for cletus to get out on parole. then we're hitting that little white chapel in vegas!"
choco: "i have high standards" - i'm so using that.
21Because my girlfriend wouldn't like it.
22I ALWAYS say "Because I dont want one"
23if i'm bitter it's "i already have a dog at home"
24my answer: look what you ended up with.
It pays to wait.
evil laugh.
25I'm married now but when I was single I'd get so annoyed with family asking why no boyfriend, as though there were tons of options and amazing men are flooding the streets every day and I must be blind and constantly rejecting these great finds, silly me. So I just said, "Well, line them up and I'll pick one!"
26ok, have to say the lasy two are the best!! Look what you ened up with. tears and laughing
27looseseal? may i please copy you? your creativity is far beyond my own, and those lines are HILARIOUS.
28I definitely used the cat lady and the girlfriend one before!
29good one!
30Copy away! I copied some of those from other people, too. Heehee.
The "come onto me" one is slightly paraphrased from a line I once heard on Gilmore Girls ("Do you want to get married?" "Now, now, it's inappropriate for you to propose to me on your wedding day.")
I can't remember where I got the "Bob" one from, but I'm pretty sure I didn't invent the acronym.
I love "Just lucky, I guess." Short and sweet.
31I got a new one!
"Because I'm on trial for killing my last boyfriend. He wouldn't stop asking stupid questions."
32don't want one. my cat is better company.
seriously.
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