# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/81 "2006-03-13T20:20:02Z")
19, single, not really on the hunt but not adverse to coffee or a movie. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/82 "2006-03-13T22:07:43Z")
26 year old female, happy and committed. We get married on cinco de mayo of this year. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/83 "2006-03-13T22:10:18Z")
34, happily married to Weirddave. Married since July 2002. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/84 "2006-03-13T22:17:20Z")
38, happily married for almost 16 years, and still completely surprised about the whole thing. So is he. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/85 "2006-03-13T22:32:21Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > 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. This could be me and my husband. 😛 I’m 41, married 12 years next month, together for 15, happy most of the time, but with the occasional screaming “F-U/slamming doors” fight thrown in for good measure. Like you said, it works for us. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/86 "2006-03-13T22:58:02Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > How do you describe your committed (but unmarried/defacto) relationships? If I had one, which I don’t, I’d refer to him as “my sweetheart”. I heard a couple mature people using that expression and it sounded really nice. I’m 50, divorced, and miss sharing my life with a man. I don’t want marriage, but having a lover and life-mate would be lovely. I’m thinking fireworks and soulmate, if I’m so lucky. I’m too vivacious to roll over and give up. ---
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/87 "2006-03-13T23:01:01Z")
44 male, single and have been _happy_ with it for the best part of the last 5 years, although the scales are tipping slowly and suredly towards _unhappy._ I think it’s time for a change. ---
**Author:** ![chrissysissystar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5e9695/32.png) [@chrissysissystar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrissysissystar)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/88 "2006-03-13T23:22:59Z")
I’m almost 44, single, always lived alone. I’ve only had one long-term relationship and I’m okay with that. I don’t mind my own company, I have super friends, I have bed buddies and it would take a pretty spectacular man to come along and change me from my path. I’m comfortable in my own skin. I guess the reason why I’ve never really been dying to be coupled is because I’ve watched my parents and I can’t completely imagine how I would find someone for me that would live up the example of my parents. ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/89 "2006-03-13T23:30:41Z")
33 married male. Happily, although it was a struggle at first. Since ours was a by-necessity long-distance romance, we didn’t have the opporunity to either live together or even spend more than 3 days in close proximity to one another at any one time. The first year as pretty tough. But it gets easier every day, and I wouldn’t change a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Mrs\_Johnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/90 "2006-03-13T23:37:03Z")
20 and happily committed - yesterday made a year and a half. We aren’t married yet but it’s in the plans. We’re taking care of a few things in the financial area before beginning our lives together. (I suppose I could’ve chosen “Future Mrs Johnson”.) ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/91 "2006-03-13T23:40:55Z")
48 I’ve been happily married to the same man for 30 years come august. 12 years ago he became a truck driver and is on the road 5 or 6 days a week. He often stops by the house midweek for a few hours when he’s passing through. I go with him on my vacations, he stays home with me on his and we call each other 3 times a day. It works for us and the tv remote is mine 5 days a week. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/92 "2006-03-13T23:46:00Z")
57 happy and committed relationship ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/93 "2006-03-13T23:57:00Z")
59 in a few weeks. Been married since July 1, 1968. Happy with marriage and happy with the marriagee. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/94 "2006-03-14T00:10:57Z")
19, happily single. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/95 "2006-03-14T01:02:46Z")
27, male, and single. More or less happily so, though I go through bouts of “actively looking.” (You know, dating sites and such.) If I find someone this way, cool, if not, well, I always have other stuff to do. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/96 "2006-03-14T01:20:08Z")
50 year old male, happily committed for coming up on 24 years. We dated exclusively for two years before that. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/97 "2006-03-14T01:25:45Z")
I’m 26, and E - Other. I’m in two committed relationships. Both are going through some changes right now, but I’m happy to be in them. I’m poly, obviously, but I’m not “single” in the available/looking sense. I have enough to worry about with these two total bastards to deal with. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/98 "2006-03-14T01:32:11Z")
52, ecstatically single, after 30-odd years, sometimes married, sometimes not, but almost always in some sort of monogamous situation and usually very busy trying to keep it working well. This past year, I’ve decided to accept not being attached, and I’m more than pleased by how well the single life suits me just now. None of this “Do try not to eat your soup with a fork, please” business anymore. I brush my teeth in any room of the house I choose, I leave the toilet seat up all the time, windows are open or closed, as I please. I don’t know why I never thought of this before, I really don’t. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/99 "2006-03-14T01:33:18Z")
> [@pseudotriton ruber ruber](#): > > 52, ecstatically single, after 30-odd years, sometimes married, sometimes not, but almost always in some sort of monogamous situation and usually very busy trying to keep it working well. This past year, I’ve decided to accept not being attached, and I’m more than pleased by how well the single life suits me just now. None of this “Do try not to eat your soup with a fork, please” business anymore. I brush my teeth in any room of the house I choose, I leave the toilet seat up all the time, windows are open or closed, as I please. I don’t know why I never thought of this before, I really don’t. And obviously male. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133/100 "2006-03-14T01:37:09Z")
32 yo male, unhappily single, and hoping I’m not the only one scoping this thread for someone to flirt with… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-relationship-status/348133.md?page=6)