# When you hear someone is single, what do you assume?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 10, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-someone-is-single-what-do-you-assume/618333 "2012-04-10T01:52:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-someone-is-single-what-do-you-assume/618333/21 "2012-04-10T21:56:19Z")

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When someone says that they’re single, I ask myself if it’s someone I’d have sex with.

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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-someone-is-single-what-do-you-assume/618333/22 "2012-04-10T22:17:14Z")

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When somebody tells me that some other person is single, I assume that the person who told me wants me and the single person to get together.

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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-someone-is-single-what-do-you-assume/618333/23 "2012-04-10T22:18:17Z")

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> [@Disheavel](#):
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> If it is a man under the age of 40 and single (maybe over the age of 25), I think there is something wrong with him.

Hey!

And you’re wrong. There’s something wrong with everyone _else_.

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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-someone-is-single-what-do-you-assume/618333/24 "2012-04-10T22:58:41Z")

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Hmmmm… well, to be married and have kids, you trade privacy and freedom for companionship and support. So I assume that a single person of an age where they have had time to get hitched if they wanted to–say about 30–values privacy and freedom more than companionship and support.

If you started this thread to hear some dirt about what married people think of single people, my juiciest bit (as a happily married person) is that there is a “type” of woman who seems to enjoy the emotional turmoil of uncertainty way more than she enjoys the stability of a relationship. She sometimes blunders into a relationship but quickly sabotages it so that she can feel lots of delicious and slightly unpleasant things, quote a lot of lyrics on Facebook, and have her gay friends take her out drinking and tell her she’s fabulous.

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