# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/61 "2006-03-13T16:13:02Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > On the verge of 28, and resigned to being single, probably forever. Not completely happy or unhappy, but facing reality. I’m doing a lot to get my life in order, but I don’t ever want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, nor would I ever dare pin all my happiness on another person. Not that I think most people (myself included) are capable of reaching the state of “happiness” (I think “contentment” is enough to shoot for, personally). I’m 37, but the rest is the same. I don’t trust anyone to be faithful to me and I would be expecting too much from someone else, plus I am set in my ways as a single person. My parents have been married 40 years but I don’t know that they’ve been happy. Content some of the time, unhappy some of it. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/62 "2006-03-13T16:17:30Z")
19, and I guess I’m happily single, meaning if a decent guy or girl came along right now, I’d probably turn him down, because at the end of April, I’m leaving the country for eight months, and really don’t want to do the long distance thing. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/63 "2006-03-13T16:25:59Z")
19, nearly 20, and I’ve been ridiculously happy in my 9-month relationship with my current man. He’s 21, next fall we’re off to K-State together to finish school. We’ve both helped each other tremendously over the months. He’s helped me realize that I should put my own happiness above all else, and I’ve helped him realize that he should finish college, which led him to start researching possible careers, which made him realize that he’s obsessive about geology. That’s what he’s going to be majoring in, and he already has a job lined up at the university! I’ve been in a couple long-term relationships before, but none of them felt right. He feels right. Plus we met on MySpace so it has to work :). ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/64 "2006-03-13T16:43:16Z")
34, happily married for 8 years though I wanted to strangle him this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/65 "2006-03-13T16:53:52Z")
21, happily in a relationship; though I’ve known her a few years, it’s only been “official” for a few months. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/66 "2006-03-13T17:26:02Z")
40, female, and very happily single. I’ve been married twice, and now I just wonder what was the point. I didn’t realize how content I am to be single until a friend of mine suggested setting me up with what sounded like a nice guy, but as the day approached, I just dreaded it. It never happened. And it’s been over a year since that happened, and I’m still in no hurry to “meet a nice man.” In my experience, having a boyfriend tends to worsen my quality of life rather than improve it. I would like to have sex with a man, though. If prostitution were legal, I would set a monthly budget for gigolos. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/67 "2006-03-13T17:32:08Z")
21, not in a relationship of any sort, and not interested in being in one. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/68 "2006-03-13T17:44:37Z")
> [@bluethree](#): > > 40, female, and very happily single. > > I would like to have sex with a man, though. If prostitution were legal, I would set a monthly budget for gigolos. Won’t some sweet mama come take a chance with me, 'cause I ain’t so bad! Bosley bosley bop, zi-di bop! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/69 "2006-03-13T17:47:00Z")
Happy, committed relationship. We’ve been married four whole weeks now. My cats will join us tonight, so wish me luck, I could be looking at divorce by next week. 🙂 I’m 35, he’s 53. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/70 "2006-03-13T17:49:20Z")
1. Unhappily single. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/71 "2006-03-13T18:46:41Z")
I’m 44 as of last February. I was married for over 20 years. I’ve been a widower for almost three years (July 11th will be three years). I’m looking forward to another 20+ years of marriage beginning August 19th. E3 ---
**Author:** ![Penchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Penchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penchan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/72 "2006-03-13T18:56:05Z")
1. Happily committed for over 5 years. We’re sorta engaged based on whether or not I’m pregnant. I swear, if I am, it’s because god wills it so. Birth control pills AND condom use every time. Oi. Anyway, we’re not officially engaged until he does the whole ceremony that he’s been brewing in that wicked head of his. He has to have his “do over” since he proposed after the errr possible conception night. _knock on wood_ ---
**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/73 "2006-03-13T19:15:33Z")
37 happily single though I wouldn’t object to some lovin. ---
**Author:** ![MrsMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@MrsMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrsMonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/74 "2006-03-13T19:30:57Z")
I’m 30 years old (31 this month - argghh!!) and Happily Committed. I’ve been married for 1.5 years - we’ve been together for 5 years, known each other almost 9 years. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/75 "2006-03-13T19:50:29Z")
I’m 36 and waiver back and forth between c) and d). I’m not opposed to a) but I’m in no way anxious about it right now, so I guess c) currently. Last week it was d). ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/76 "2006-03-13T20:01:40Z")
I’m male, 36, and my status is (E), other. My wife and I are slowly moving toward resolution on our pending divorce (amicable). I don’t know what I’m going to want when I’m again single and available, but I suspect I’m going to take it easy for a while. No sense jumping blindly into anything while I’m still thinking about where I just came from. ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/77 "2006-03-13T20:02:50Z")
Single male here (31) I am not in a relationship commited or uncommited. Sometimes I’m happy, sometimes I’m not because I miss being close to someone and having someone be close to me. I’m glad I’m out of my last relationship and am looking for my next one. I have a crush on a doper who knows who she is and while I wonder if it will evolve into something else I have to doubt it because she and I haven’t met. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/78 "2006-03-13T20:05:58Z")
Single, lonely and hurting. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/79 "2006-03-13T20:06:12Z")
38 (for a couple more months), male, and happily married for 8 years as of this August. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/80 "2006-03-13T20:11:19Z")
51 & ©. No relationship and not looking for one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133.md?page=5)