As an answer to “How long do your romantic relationships usually last?”
I only remember one profile that accepted it as an answer out of somewhere around 100.
How am I supposed to ever meet anybody?
Just enter however long you were that other girl’s mental boyfriend.
Easy peasy, lemon squeesy.
Maybe your friend can set you up with somebody, as he will certainly have some free time now that he won’t be smoking weed anymore.
Don’t answer that question publically? If you meet some girl and she likes you, she is unlikely to run away screaming when she finds out you’ve never been in a relationship before.
You need experience to get the job, but you need the job to get experience. The eternal paradox.
But as people have always advised me “Volunteer”
Add up the time you spent hiding in the bushes outside the window of that girl from algebra class masturbating, because that counts.
Well, if you absolutely must answer the question, you can say “two years” with a feeling of not being untruthful (because that is how long you claim to have have been a “mental boyfriend”).
I saw what you did there. Well played.
Lie
If you have to answer that question, make up a number. It’s undefined. To get your average you have to divide by zero, and once you do that you can get any result. Any number is equally valid.
“Until I’m arrested” is an answer that marks you as a man of the world.
If you can hit a home run with that one, the other ninety-nine dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
I’ve had an affair with my penis for 40 odd years now – some of them very odd.
In addition to your comment: “I’ve never been in a relationship” add this link: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?searchid=6073469 as support for your claim. After sifting through the link, no one would doubt your claim.
Duh. This is what everyone else does. Take, for example, the liberal use of the terms “fit” and “curvy.”
How about “until my hand gets tired”?
Seriously just lie. I’m not sure what a good number to trick the bitches* is but someone else will.
*I don’t mean all women just these bitches that will not even consider dating a guy who hasn’t dated before.
While “Until she got the restraining order” reveals you to be admirably persistent.
What a horrible question. Who gives a shit, as long as you are honest about what you want? Maybe you moved around a lot and had a girlfriend in each place. Maybe you’ve had a single long-term relationship that lasted 10 years. Would that even be ‘usually’? If so, that might freak people out just as much, thinking one date means they’re locked in for a decade.
Just put whatever you want, and when the topic comes up say that things have never really clicked with anyone else before. Believe me, it’s way better than talking shit about exes on a first date.