- Posting constant facebook updates about how happy you are to be with “TEH GREATUST” person ever. If they’re the best, let them know that. Not facebook. Facebook doesn’t care. They’re worse than those farmville invites.
- This sudden trend of dating people that are married but ‘working on a divorce’. I know like four people in this situation and… I just don’t get it. Especially if said divorce is taking years and the guy is still in friendly contact with his wife. And…the guy is way freaking older than you are.
- Dating people with kids and claiming them as your own. I’m sorry. You can love children that aren’t yours like they are yours, I get that. But A: This is often paired up with the dating someone that’s still technically, legally married bit and B: …those poor kids. And their poor mother/father. Kids are going to play their parents and the girlfriends/boyfriends of their parents against each other. I can’t imagine how the kids will grow up either. “Yeah, daddy had my mommy and a girlfriend.” Sorry guys, I know someone’s going to scream at me for this but this, but I know I’m not the only one that wants to scream when you post pictures of you and “your” babies everywhere. All I can think is how hard it’s going to be on the kids later on. (I guess people get weirded out by sonograms being posted online, this is my version of a sonogram.)
- Being “engaged” for half a decade. Honestly, when I hear that someone’s engaged and there’s no wedding planned within a year’s time, all I hear is “Yeah we’re sleeping together but that’s okay because we think we’re getting married.” I especially love it when someone gets ‘engaged’ every time they get a boyfriend. (I guess engaged is the new going steady? Maybe I’m out of the loop…)
- On again, off again relationships. I don’t even know how to help you guys. I’ve had friends come to me to talk but…I’m brutally honest. I have one friend who’s ex boyfriend/current boyfriend pulled a knife on her. She took him back. Then he was taken away in handcuffs. Then she took him back. That’s the most extreme case but it happens -all of the time-. What am I supposed to say, guys? If he dumped you once, he’ll dump you again. And if he pulls a freakin’ knife on you, GET. HELP.
Maybe it’s because I don’t understand the magic of lurv but the more I see modern relationships, the less I want one.