Divorced. Living with my boyfriend of 3 years. My six year old considers boyfriend to be “his dad.” (but calls him by his first names) The ex hasn’t laid eyes on me or his biological child since before the by was 6 mnths old. Even my ex’s mother has not seen him in abut two years.
I wish there was a nun of the above option. It would have been appropriate and would have made me giggle. As it is, I chose other. I’m a postulant in a monastic community, so I guess some might call me single. I wouldn’t use that word though because I’m in a committed relationship with my community.
Somewhere between dating casually and committed relationship, I guess- we’re “facebook official” but we’re not engaged or anything. All our friends decided we’d be married eventually before we ever met and keep assuming that he’ll follow me anywhere I go, and I don’t think either of us are as sure about that. I plan on moving away next year and spending three months overseas on top of that and I wouldn’t say we’re serious enough that I have any right to ask him to go with me.
Married three years as of last November.
I should have clicked “other”: we’re unmarried in the U.S., married in Canada (common law marriage), and the don’t-call-it-marriage-but-it’s-exactly-equivalent civil partners in the U.K. All of this proceeding from our cohabitation + California Domestic Partnership.
Other - I have a long-distance relationship with a girl who likes to be doted upon, gets angry if I try to break it off, but doesn’t want to go any further.
I am, of course, an idiot.
My girlfriend and I have been together for a month and a half. I was single and celibate (well, not by conscious choice but rather sheer laziness) for over two years prior to this relationship.
Happily married for 2 1/2 years, with an 8-week-old daughter.
OOps-I thought option # 8 said “dating casualty”, and figured that was as good a descriptive as any…
Single, but looking.
Technically not asexual.
Right now the closest thing I have to a date or a friend or anyone knowing I’m alive is the uppity cat that comes to my window and peaks in at 1am. He thinks he’s so smart. But when I see him outside I go to pet him and he walks toward me and right at the last minute he turns around and runs away.
Stupid tease.
I guess he belongs to someone as he’s been visiting for years now. And he’s well fed and I don’t see any battlescars on him, like the feral cats I see in the alley
Married 30 years. Thirty years is greater than the sum all our various siblings’ marriages (5 siblings total/8 marriages).
Tomorrow is our 29th anniversary!
We only got to become legally “whatevered” when Nevada passed the domestic partners bill last October.
Married for a good long time to my best friend.
Neither of us really wanted to get married before we met. Now we’ve warped each other so completely that we can’t even remember what life was like without the other.
I voted both married and in a committed long-distance relationship. This is because currently, I live in north-western WV (managing our investment properties) and my hubby works in the Baltimore, MD area. He gets paid every two weeks and ‘comes home’ on pay weekends. And so, though we are definitely married (I’m sure I could find the certificate if I had to, and I certainly wear the rings on my left hand!) we only spend about four days out of every two weeks together.
We stay in touch daily by phone, email, etc. We have “date nights” on the Saturdays he’s home, on which business talk is verboten. Usually, we will go out to dinner and a movie or some such.
Congratulations and best wishes!
Very cool! I’d so love to see an “Ask the…” thread from you.
As for me, happily married for 12 years to the most wonderful man in the universe.
Single and content.
I chose both the local and long distance committed relationship options. My boyfriend and I live about an hour apart and I stay at his house most weekends. I drive back and forth twice a week between my home and his. It’s about 200 miles per week of traveling here and there. Thank heavens my car gets 30-33 mpg!!!
We’ve been together for 3 awesome years!
Been together for over a year now, and living together for around half that time. Our relationship progressed somewhat quickly but both of us are happy with where we are now.