7 good things about being single in winter

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Oct 29, 2014

If you're not in a relationship – you're in luck. Autumn and winter are great times to be single so embrace it, after all you never know how long it will last…

Here are some things to be glad of when you're single this winter:

1. No Need For Excess Travel

So it’s -10 degrees outside, lashing rain and the wind out there would blow Jesus off the cross, but you get to stay indoors. You don’t have to go anywhere. Making the journey to a significant others house is a effort in winter, especially if they live far away. So make another cup of tea while your waiting for the next episode of Friends to start. Treat yo’self.

2. Every Side Of The Bed Is Your Side Of The Bed

You can rest in peace without anyone sleeping on top of you, stealing the duvet or snoring their socks off. There’s nothing sad about snuggling up with a hot water bottle while couples around the globe fight over the blanket.

3. You Can Be As Hairy As You Wish

A massive upside to be single in winter. Thanks to the birth of tights us ladies can go for weeks without shaving. That’s an extra 30 minutes you get back a week!

5. Sex And The City & Friends Marathons

Getting to re-watch all your favourite shows without having someone (probably a man) bitch in your ear is something we rarely appreciate until it’s happens. Also, it means you don’t have to endure endless episodes of shows you couldn’t care less about. It’s a win win situation.

6. Me Time

Between college, work and a social life it’s hard enough to find time for yourself, so when you throw someone else into the equation, it’s really hard to find time for little aul you. Me time is great, you get to time to breathe, relax and dance around your room to T-Swizzle in peace!

7. You Save a Bomb

Christmas + Family + Significant Other = Sad Pockets. It’s the most expensive holiday of the year, but when you’re single all you need to worry about is remembering what body butter your sister likes and buying for your Grandmother who gives everything back. You don’t have to drop a hundred euro on someone.

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The 7 different types of single people

Relationships

Sep 19, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Being single can be a lot of fun, once you embrace it and stop being such a miserable fool. You’re young, you’re free, you have nothing stopping you being totally wild. Which type of single person are you?

1. The Single Still Mourning Their Last Relationship
Your last relationship was a doozy: a tale of passion, love, and resentment. You might feel like you need a few years to tend to your depleted emotional wells after that break-up. You’d rather talk about your last relationship to your (very patient) friends. Don’t worry — we’ve all been there.

2. The Single Who Is Painfully Aware of Being Single
You see yourself as being single above everything: in your mind, it’s your defining characteristic. Maybe you start to avoid the topic of dating altogether. You start to feel like the prospect of dating is hopeless — and it will be, unless you turn your attitude around, and start seeing yourself as a person, not just a single person.

3. The Single Who Is Eternally Single (And Content With It)
Work life? Check. Friends? Check. Cool hobbies, interests, clothes, apartment? Check, check, check, check. You seem to have everything in your life, except, for some reason, a relationship. But you don't care – why should you? Your life is amazing!

4. The Newly Single Person Who Doesn’t Really Mind Being Single
Ah, single again. Well, no big deal, you know the routine. It’s sort of nice to be on your own for a while! To have quiet nights in by yourself, and wild nights out with your friends. You totally appreciate the positive side to being single, which is good, because you’re usually not single for long.

5. The Single Person Who Loves The Thrill
Single? Of course you’re single. You wouldn’t dream of being tied to just one person, not when dating is this exciting! The thrill of the chase, the butterflies, the flirting: you are good at the dating game, and you know it. Maybe someday you’ll settle down, but not while you’re having so much fun.

6. The Single Headhunter
There is an opening in your life, and you’re looking to fill the position of Significant Other ASAP. You take a serious, almost business-like approach to finding a partner. You date consistently, and use any method available to you to find dates, which is usually just Tinder… basically you’re just a Tinder fiend!

7. The Single Who’s Not Really That Single
Yeah, technically you’re not dating someone, and your Facebook status might proudly say “Single.” But secretly, you’re completely wrapped up in someone else, and you’re not really interested in playing the field.

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Cheryl teases fans with behind-the-scene snaps of new single!

Celebrity

Aug 24, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Cheryl Fernandez-Versini took a break from smooching her sexy French hubby recently to shoot the video for her latest single – and it looks amazing!

Cheryl shared behind-the-scenes snaps for the track I Don’t Care on her Instagram, showing off some stunning scenes around Spain.

Cheryl, whose new album Only Human is out in November, is making the most of her free time before she returns to her role on The X Factor alongside Simon Cowell, Mel B and Louis Walsh.

Earlier in the week, the singer was seen arriving at Malaga airport with hubby Jean-Bernard for a holiday in the sun.

It’s a tough life but somebody has to do it!

11 moments in life being single is amazing

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Aug 20, 2014

by Amber Saunders

It's good to be single lots of the time, as much as it is to be in a relationship. But certain times in your life can be better when you're single. Maybe it's that you'll be away and miss them, or sometimes it's just to feel free.

1. When You Want To Travel

Everyone claims that they want to travel the world, but few actually go out there and do it. It’s especially difficult to do if you’re in a relationship and your partner doesn’t see adventuring as being high on the list of priorities. When you’re single you have no one else’s feelings on the matter to take into consideration, just a plane ticket and hope.

2. On A Girls Holiday

There’s always that one poor relationship bound sap who spends their whole lads/ girls holiday desperately trying to avoid temptation, while watching their single friends clean up on action. It’s not that you even want to latch yourself face first on to the nearest possible target, it’s just that the choice to do so, is the best part of all. You’ll never know what tomorrow has in store when you’re a singleton, after all.

3. On Nights Out

Being single in a nightclub (Coppers, for example), is what being single is all about. Getting ready, thinking about the night ahead, no jealous partner sitting at home texting you every few minutes. You’re free to flirt with, get drinks off and meet whomever you wish.

4. When You’re Studying

There’s no greater distraction than a relationship when you’re trying to get your head in the study game. You’re cramming months worth of crap into your head, when all you really want is to go and be loved up. The only option is to turn your phone off in the vague hope that they won’t distract you for twenty minutes. Alas, you can kiss all of these problems goodbye when you’re single. No love woes, no distractions, no problem.

5. During Your College Years

Being in college and being single is the perfect combination. Like tea and toast, eggs and bacon, cereal and milk (mmm…bacon). You’re free to experiment, meet new and interesting people, do whatever it is that you want to do. No long distance other half at home, crying down the phone to you. Bliss.

6. At A Festival

Couples at a festival are like a bad cold that you just can’t shift. One of them is most definitely there out of pure habit and both are trying to avoid an inevitable blow up from occurring. Being single at a festival means the freedom to go and see whatever band tickles your fancy, dancing until 6am if you feel like it and best of all, you’d never know who could end up in your tent…

7. During A Shopping Spree

Who wants to be that boyfriend? You know, the one who sits there with sixteen bags hanging off his arm, pained expression to boot, wishing he was anywhere else but here.

8. During The World Cup

The world cup for anyone not interested in football, was like an extended bout of crippling stomach cramps. Horrific. Painful. Uncomfortable. All the single football hating beings out there got to avoid this painful time and for that they are eternally grateful.

9. When You See How Miserable Your ‘Loved Up’ Friends Are

There’s always a few couples who should clearly not be together, it’s as obvious as the sky is grey. Why they don’t break up is the burning question on everyone’s lips. Why would they, sure isn’t making everyone else around them uncomfortable the whole point of being in a relationship anyway? Rest assured that they spend 90% of the time looking at your carefree single life and crying internally. You’ve got it all.

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The 17 truths about single life no one tells you

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Aug 18, 2014

by Amber Saunders

You thought it would be like Sex and the City. You thought you and your group would be the new Cosmo-drinking gals in town. But no. Being single isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When you have just come out of a relationship, you feel free, but after a while you start to get lonely. It gradually starts to take its toll and you suddenly feel like you want to be a relationship again for some strange reason. Here is the ugly truth about being single.

1. Your expectations are way too high
You think that you’re going to meet the perfect person someday and you just haven’t found them. Nobody’s perfect, so it’s unrealistic to think that somewhere out there, there is that perfect person just for you. They have to tick all the right boxes, but sooner of later you’ll find we all have flaws and that’s what makes us human.

2. You would rather have a night in then go out socialising
It’s gotten to the stage where you don’t even really bother anymore. Too often you decided to spend a night in by yourself watching tv rather then going out and being with your friends. It’s always a great chance to meet new people and even if it’s just with your friends its better than being home alone.

3. Being jealous of all your friends in relationships
It started out with one of your friends being in a relationship and before you knew it most of your friends seem to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. You are happy for them at first, but soon they make you realise that you really need to be in a relationship.

4. You have accounts on nearly every dating website, but never use them
So you said you were going to really apply yourself and find someone online, but you have an account on Match.com, Tinder and Elite Singles and you’ve used them once and then completely gave up on them after meeting some serious creeps online.

5. You tend to overthink interactions with people you like
So you’re talking to someone you like and there being really receptive, you think that they’re into you. Odds are that they are just being nice and are like that to most people. You come away from the situation feeling like this is the start of something.

6. You still believe you will meet the right person on Tinder
It is definitely not the app that you will help you find the right person, you could have similar interest, but very few people actually have a meaningful relationship from tinder. There is a reason you have heard so many horror stories about Tinder dates.

7. You always cry when you watch romantic comedies
They really are fairy tales and if dating was like what it is in romantic comedies, then we would all be in a relationship. Everyone knows how they end, so it makes it that much harder for you to watch them.

8. When you hear a love song on the radio you die a little inside
Just when you’re actually thinking about something else other than how single you are, you hear a song on the radio that brings up all the bad memories of your last relationship. It’s even worse when it’s that song that you and your ex used to listen to.

9. Your phone seems to have more battery
When you’re in a relationship with someone, you’re constantly texting them and seeing how they are doing. When you’re single you realise that you don’t get as much texts as you used to. It is kind of a pro, having more battery, but you do miss those texts you used to get at the end of the day.

10. You always end up being the third wheel
You try to get out of it, but sometimes you want to meet up with your friend and they conveniently bring their significant other with them. You say you don’t mind, but really you just want to hang out with your friend and not see them always kissing each other.

11. You spontaneously decide to get a cat
It doesn’t necessarily have to be a cat, it could be a dog, but you need some companion to have around the house. You wonder why you only decided to get one now, but for some reason it just felt right. Deep down, it’s because they’re the closest thing you have to having a boyfriend or girlfriend.

12. You start to develop bad eating habits
You don’t really care about what you eat, because there is no one there to judge you about your food choice. You order takeaway often because it’s more convenient. You used to cook for two, but now it’s always just you, a Chinese and a glass of wine.

13. You let yourself go
Being single means you are your own person and have no responsibility to act a certain way. You don’t seem to care as much and you find yourself filling out a bit. You might not notice at first, but eventually you realise you’ve got to start working out again.

14. Wearing sweatpants any chance you can
You get home and the first thing you do is change out of your clothes and get into sweatpants or whatever rags you wear at home. When you had a significant other you would dress up when you knew you were going to see them, now you have no obligation to do so.

15. You have actually taken dating advice from your mother
Your mother even recognises that you have been single for too long and tries to give you some advice. You actually listen to them for once, and think it’s good advice until you realise that no one sends letters anymore.

16. You don’t leave the house on Valentine's Day
It’s not so much that you are sick of all the ads on TV or the cards, it’s the fact that it actually makes you realize how single you are. You remember how last year you had a romantic dinner, and now it’s just you by yourself drowing your sorrows.

17. You have actually considered getting back with your ex
Through it all, you have actually considered getting back with your ex. Even after all the shit you went through with them and how much of an asshole they were. You will really just do anything to be in a relationship again.

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10 truths only single girls will identify with

Relationships

Jul 31, 2014

by Amber Saunders

There are some things that only single girls will get. It's a different world out there, you guys:

1. Grooming Is An Option Not A Necessity

So you haven’t bought a packet of razors since June 2013 and your legs are crying out to be mowed? Meh. Maybe later. Who’ll see them anyway?

2. Periods Are An Inconvenience Not A Reassurance

Ok so they’re never exactly welcomed with opened arms and a hug, but when you’re loved up, the pain is somewhat masked by the overwhelming relief if you're not trying. Whereas when you’ve been sleeping with nobody except your onesie, they just serve to remind you that being a girl is a painful inconvenience sometimes.

3. Fat Days Are Our Equivalent Of Dates

Whilst our love struck sisters are prepping themselves for another sexy Saturday night of flirting and fun, we’ll be prepping ourselves for a fat pants, make-up free, dominoes filled, laptop marathon.

4. Valentine's Day Needs To Feck Off

A day celebrating love is never going to be our thing. Honestly, it’s like being starved for two months and then being brought shopping in a sweet shop with a strict no taste policy.

5. Friends Insist On Setting You Up

Someone always knows a man that’d be just ‘perfect’ for you. You’ve since learned however, that someone else’s idea of perfect is pretty much your idea of hell, all encased into one awkward, drunk man form. No matter how many times you tell your friends that you are in fact happy to be single, they will still insist on setting you up with the most inappropriate, unattractive males they can find. Just grin and bare it.

6. Your Girlfriends Are Everything

With no male distractions, your female friends will be your everything. Sadly, we’ve all lost friends to the boyfriend curse, so treasure the single ones now, before they disappear forever. Who else could you wear a face mask, pluck your eyebrows and fart in front of, after all.

7. Over-Analyzing Texts Is Totally Normal

Most single girls have a man or two on text tap. It keeps the severe boredom from setting in on those long winter nights. It’s all a clever and cunning mind war, where the time between texts is the name of the game and exclamation marks, combined with x’s means one thing and one thing only. Possible future action.

8. Every Event Is A Pulling Opportunity

As a single lady, you may treat every outing as a pulling mission. You may as well. Play the field while you’re still fit and able. That said, there are some nights when all you’ll feel like doing is drinking cheap cocktails and dancing your little heart out with your best girlfriends and that’s more than okay too.

9. The Sight Of Couples Holiday Pictures Makes You Gag

It’s not that we’re bitter, it’s just that if we have to scroll through Facebook one more time and witness ‘Joanne’ add another 45 pictures to the album ‘Summer Hols 2014,’ we may scream. Not because her holiday looks amazing you see, more the fact the Joanne’s album consists of varying shots of her, then her boyfriend, then her, then her boyfriend, then, well, you get the point. She must be stopped.

10. Befriending Men Is Seen As An Agenda

As a single girl, merely holding a conversation a man, can be seen as something much more. Every man must automatically presume that you’re up for it, that you’re flirting and fancy the pants off him when really, all you want to know is how many single friends he has. That and some platonic, male advice on males.

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The realities of being a recently single girl

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Jul 24, 2014

Too many fancy clothes are dry clean only.

10. Starting to Save Money To Travel

Expectation:

The world is waiting. Lets's go!

Reality:

Must buy clothes.

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It’s wedding season, but don’t fret if you haven’t got a plus one

Lifestyle

Jul 10, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Getting that wedding invitation with a ‘plus one’ can be like a slap in the face if you’re only recently single, or if you really don’t want to be single. Don’t let your lack of a date ruin what could be a great night though – you’ll regret it in the long run. Here’s how to survive a wedding sans plus one.

Look your best
If you’re comfortable in how you look, it’s one less thing to worry about. Also, you want people to be utterly shocked that someone as fabulous as you could be single.

Don’t leave early
It looks bad. You should wait at least until they’ve cut the cake, then if you still feel like you’d rather be at home hiding under your duvet, you can leg it.

Find other singletons
You’re definitely not the only one there without a date – find other singletons to have some fun with. Who knows? You could find your future husband!

Small talk
Have a few conversation starters for when you’re sitting around the table. You can talk about the dress, the location, the priest. Wedding themed chit chat is always good, for obvious reasons.

Find the oldies
When you’re looking for people to talk to, don’t avoid to older generation. More often than not, they’re great fun and have great stories. They’ll keep you entertained for hours.

Good and bad things about being single

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Jul 9, 2014

by Amber Saunders

There are good and bad things about everything – relationships included!

Good: You Can Do What You Gosh Darn Like

You can go do literally do whatever tickles your fancy. Whether it’s as elaborate as travelling the world, dress whatever way you like, to watching E! News without him bitching to change the channel.

Bad: Spiders

“OH JESUS GET IT AWAY!” You’re on your own there…

Good: More Time To Focus On Your Professional Ambitions

Get rich or die tryin’

Bad: You’re Surrounded By Love Songs

It seems that instead of embracing every new love song that comes out, you find yourself actually realizing how much you can’t relate to most songs anymore. You’ll soon find yourself listening to music which provides female empowerment, and enjoy that a lot more.

Good: Crazier Life Scenarios

You never thought you’d end up at some random dark underground rave at 6am in god knows where with god knows who. But you are and you’re having a blast!

Bad: Well, Crazier Life Scenarios

“So and so has tagged you in 1 million photos”. What have you done?

Good: More Snoozing Space

You can now starfish in peace with all the duvet you ever dream off. Livin’ the life.

Bad: Lack Of Spooning/Forking

We all love a good cuddle here and there. Those days are gone, it’s just you, your pillow which you wrap your body around and that gift vouchers for Ann Summers.

Good: You Are You’re Own Critic

Whether it’s your own appearance, your personality or major life decisions, there’s no one else to give the final verdict apart from you. This in result is mega-empowering.

Bad: Creeps, Creeps Everywhere

A lot of guys think it genuinely okay to inform you that he loves how your bosom looks and assume that because your cleavage is on show that you have no doubt in your mind that you will sleep with anyone.

Good: All Your Hard Earned Cash Goes On You

You may not be rolling in cash but you find that you have more money to play around with.

Bad: “Are you seeing anyone?”

This is always an awkward question; if you not seeing someone than you’ll receive a pitiful face and a talk about how “he is out there.”. Or if you are seeing someone, you can’t say it without sounding like you’ve been planning your wedding together.

Good: You Become Closer To Those Who Never In A Million Years Would Be Your Friends

This usually happens on the steps of some building close to whatever nightclub you went to that night. It’s 5am and you find yourself having a full on DMC with a girl who you kind’ve know but never took the time to as you usually would leave the club several hours previous with your boyfriend. YAY NEW FRIEND!

Bad: You Miss Having A Romantic Connection With Someone

As much as you do enjoy the company of pizza, you have the best friends in the world and spooning your dog has not just become acceptable but immensely enjoyable it is just not the same. The desire to be held and admired by a special someone can get a tad overwhelming, especially after watching Moulin Rouge for the third time this week.

Good: You Can Eat/Fart/Burp Whenever You Want

The sense of relief when you don’t have to worry about what kind of wind you about to realise into the atmosphere. You can just do it, continue devouring that 20e meal deal from Dominos and follow it up by belching the alphabet.

Bad: Having To Do Everything Yourself

Having to do everything for yourself can get really really annoying. Your tired, you’re hungover and a fry won’t make itself. It’s hard not having someone there to ask really nicely to do it for you *puppy eyes*.

Good: Flirt With Whomever You Like

There are sometimes in your life when an incredibly good looking man wanders into your life. You’re convinced that he must be from heaven as someone that looking cannot be human and for whatever reason he’s got his eyes on you. Time to be cool, have the bants and stare at this absolute beauty.

Bad: It Been A While So You Forget How To Flirt

Other times you can be a bit rusty, or immensely intimidated. Either way you’ll find yourself desperately trying to keep composure and not appear like a mentally insane patient who decided to escape from the asylum and go to Coppers.

Good: Life Is One Adventure After Another

Though all the dramatical moments, lonesome nights and major life events you know that being single in your 20′s is an absolute blast. Life is full of opportunities, every night out is great craic and you can’t remember the last time you went home before the lights went up.

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15 things people in couples do that single people hate

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Jun 20, 2014

by Amber Saunders

There are certian things that people in couples do that drives single people mad. Like these for example:

1. Giving relationship advice to single people
Just don’t do it. They don’t want to know.

2. Using themselves as an example of a successful relationship
In their rambling about being in a relationship they use themselves as an example of a perfect relationship. Gah!

3. Referring to themselves as “we”
“We were thinking of going out if you want to join us?” or “We think it’s better to stay in tonite“. You have been going out for two weeks and you’re already talking like you’re married. Wait until you have gone out for a couple of months, when everyone starts referring to you as a couple, you will do anything to be seen as an individual.

4. Letting everyone how long you they have been together
It always seems to be some sort of anniversary, whether it’s your actual anniversary or that time when you went to the beach and got ice-cream. You think that everyone needs to know how long you guys have been together “Well next week we’re going on 6 months” which results in another annoying Facebook status about how you’ve been through so much together.

5. Comparing themselves to Jay-Z and Beyoncé
“Oh my God, Drunk in Love, that is totally us babe”, too much info, thanks.

6. Constant status updates about their significant other
“Love you babes xxx” and “you’re always there for me when I need you,” we know that you’re in a relationship, so we don’t need you to constantly update us on how things are going.

7. Posting those girly photos on Facebook
Every girl loves to post these photos to show much they love their boyfriend. Yeah, we get it, you don’t have to tell us every little thing that he does.

8. Texting each other all the time
When they get a text from the boyfriend/girlfriend there’s literally nothing else in the world that is more important. Even if they text back “k” they feel like you have to send them some long winded text about how much they love each other.

9. Synchronised laughing
It’s very creepy when you both laugh at the same time and make the exact same sound when you do it. You probably think it’s cute, but to everyone else, it’s just downright freaky.

10. Saying “Awwww” together when you see something cute
It is as if you are just one big girly organism who can’t contain themselves when they see something cute. You watched Despicable Me together and now anytime you see anything to do with minions you have to share it on their wall.

11. Singing “Your song” together
It seems to change every week, it could literally be any song about a relationship and then you say “It’s like they wrote this song for us, baby?” Yeah, because you’re the only two people in a relationship at this moment in time.

12. Whispering in each others ear and then saying you wouldn’t understand
When you’re with a couple there is nothing more annoying than when they exclude you from the conversation. They whisper in each other’s ear and pretend like nothing happened. If you’re going to be that juvenile, you might as well pass each other notes like you used to do in school.

13. You bring a plus one even when they haven’t been invited
Even when your boyfriend/girlfriend isn’t invited you still insist on bringing a plus one. You say it’s because you can’t stand being away from them but really you just don’t trust them.

14. Prolonged public displays of affection
We get you love each other and that you want to express it physically, but you’re not at home, you’re in a public space. We don’t need to see you getting freaky on a park bench when we’re eating lunch.

15. Telling everyone how much you have in common
“It’s like were the same person, we have so much in common.” If one of these things is that you both like The Notebook, we have some bad news. Guys just say they like things so that girls will think that they have a sensitive side.

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Single Zac Efron puts Hollywood actress to top of wish list!

Celebrity

Jun 14, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Is there anyone more dangerous (or hotter) than a single Zac Efron on the prowl?!

After a brief romance with his Bad Neighbors co-star Halston Sage, Zac is ready to move on and has his eye on one very famous TAKEN lady!

Ryan Gosling’s on again, off again girlfriend Eva Mendes is said to be at the top of his dating ‘wish list’ and Zac is apparently absolutely smitten with the gorgeous actress.

Uh-oh!

Zac is said to have always loved Eva’s look and thought Ryan Gosling was insane not to put a ring on her finger.

And better yet, 26-year-old Zac isn’t bothered by the 14-year age difference between him and Eva.

Two dreamboats swooning over one lady – we’re not jealous at all!

We never thought we’d see the day, but Ryan had better watch his back!

10 signs you are single

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May 30, 2014

by Amber Saunders

The single life can get way too comfortable.

1. “Table for one please”
Thank God for smart phones, what the hell did single people do back in the day? Read a BOOK?! The horror.

2. When empowering single people songs come on and you realize you’re the only one dancing
Who cares, roll with it!

3. The couch cushion is your big spoon
No elbows, way better *sob*

4. You become obsessed with your friends’ love lives.
How fascinating

5. Flirting is a foreign sport.
Can they even tell if I’m trying? How about now?

6. Couples make you angry
Get your relationship out of my face, off my newsfeed and away from my park bench.

7. You take your role as third wheel very seriously
They love you being there. Obvs.

8. Date? What’s a date?
How do we do this again? Shave, pluck, apply, we couldn’t be bothered. And anyway, The Hills reruns are on.

9. You no longer have use for certain plurals
There’s no I in team. But you have no team anyway.

10. You accept that you will die alone.
And that’s totally fine because the shelter is on speedial and they have cats.

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