# What's Your Relationship Status? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 13, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133 "2006-03-13T04:10:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/41 "2006-03-13T11:21:34Z")
I’m female, 32 and single - I don’t know that I’d call it happily or unhappily. I don’t avoid relationships and I’d be willing to develop a relationship with someone. At the same time, the current lack of a relationship doesn’t distress me in any way. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/42 "2006-03-13T11:57:24Z")
39 year old male. Happily married. We’ve been married since 1993 and a couple since 1986. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/43 "2006-03-13T12:07:38Z")
I’m 20. And happy and committed to my fiance. Next month we’ll have been together 3 years. (4 days after I turn 21) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/44 "2006-03-13T12:11:34Z")
I am single and mostly happy. A woman in my life would (could) add to my happiness, but is not a requirement. There are days when I come home and I wish there were someone here and probably and equal amount of days when I come home and I’m happy to be alone. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/45 "2006-03-13T12:19:01Z")
24, happily committed, and set to be married to the woman this June the 24th. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/46 "2006-03-13T12:48:34Z")
51, single, happy, not currently looking, but not closed to the possibility of another relationship if someone interesting should come along. (Actually answered a Craigslist personal yesterday – the guy responded by taking down the ad, so I guess that’s a “no.” Heh.) ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/47 "2006-03-13T13:01:10Z")
I’m 45 and unhappily married. We’ve been married for 23 years and the first 5 or so were OK, but once the kids came along things just stopped working. Maybe I changed, maybe we were just fooling ourselves in the first place, but I’m just waiting for the kids to be self-supporting so I can move out. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/48 "2006-03-13T13:12:34Z")
26, not terribly thrilled single but in some sort of hellish vacuum where there are no women and no time to remedy that. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/49 "2006-03-13T13:14:30Z")
43, happily married to a 39yo lady for almost 11 years. We met on the street in front of the old 9:30 club on November 4, 1989, and have been together ever since. We have 3 kids, 7, 4, and 1. I can’t say we don’t have ups and downs (who doesn’t?), but nothing foundation shaking. We’re in it forever. ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/50 "2006-03-13T13:34:48Z")
21, female, married for two years this coming September. We flip-flop from happy to unhappy on a day-to day basis. We work together as well as cohabitate.\*\* longhair75\*\*, marrige is hard btw, atleast for two people as harded headed as me and mr. mrald! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/51 "2006-03-13T13:43:13Z")
42(m). Currently single. List me among the _ambivalent_ at the moment as I’ve just marked the close of a 3 year stretch of relationships and adventures that could only be related in a series of Penthouse letters. There was an 18 month relationship that I hoped would become something and we both tried our best but it stubbornly resisted our best intentions. No hard feelings and many fond memories but I think I’m going to mourn that one for a little bit before I get back out there. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/52 "2006-03-13T14:05:56Z")
43 Unhappily single. Lonely, with severely impaired social skills, possibly Asperger’s. Northerner in a Southern community. I see life as having passed me by. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/53 "2006-03-13T14:26:31Z")
1. Live with a long-time girlfriend. Mixed feelings about it as I gave up a freakin sweet Manhattan appartment. While I love my GF, I’m not sure I’m crazy about the idea of marriage or even living with someone. I like having my own space and coming and going as I please. ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/54 "2006-03-13T14:29:21Z")
32, male, happily single because I’ve got a date tonight. During my dry spells I’m less enthusiastic. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/55 "2006-03-13T14:31:17Z")
39 year old male. A) Happily married for 13 years with 2 young kids. I didn’t date much before marriage and my wife is the first girl I was in love with. I was thunderstruck by her. We are now an older married couple. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/56 "2006-03-13T15:24:51Z")
40 year old female. Married for going on three (? - I’m not good with dates) years, have been together for ten. Happy - not deliriously - that would be a bore - but really content most of the time. We get on each other’s nerves and in fact, exchanged a very loud F-U replete with slamming doors this morning while getting ready to leave for work. By the time he dropped me off, we had both cooled off and kissed each other goodbye. Tonight after work we’ll go out for a few beers together and have fun, by the time bedtime rolls around, we’ll be sniping at each other about the TV. I don’t know - it seems to work for us. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/57 "2006-03-13T15:46:19Z")
42, unhappily single, and not expecting it to change. OTOH, I’ve worked my way out of a lot of crap in the past couple of years, so at least from the viewpoint of money, clothing, and plans, I’m in better shape. If only I knew fifteen years ago what I know now… ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/58 "2006-03-13T15:55:30Z")
36, female, ambivalently single. Sometimes I’m lonely and fed up with my singleness, but most of the time I don’t worry about it. Well, I try not to. But there’s someone on the horizon, so I may be more optimistic than usual. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/59 "2006-03-13T15:55:38Z")
1. Single and not making any effort to change it, though if the the right woman found me, I’d consider a relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/60 "2006-03-13T16:11:16Z")
Choice (e): I (male, mid-30s) live in the U.S.; **Mr. Mallard** lives abroad. And since gay marriage is not recognized on the federal level, and only married people can sponsor each other for immigration, here we are. Will he find a visa (not so far, but it’s only been 3 years apart)? Should I leave my country forever? So the relationship is happy when we’re together, but the long-term future is up to a discriminatory bureaucracy. So far we haven’t seriously considered a sham marriage or illegal immigration, but I can understand why other people do it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133.md?page=4)