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A healthy relationship is focused on you and your partner and not giving a damn what other people think. But let's face it, most people worry about their reputation and having an ideal partner can be a reflection of your value and desirability.

Stereotypes single women face (gets worse as they age):

- too neurotic
- too feminist
- lacking feminine wiles
- doomed to be a childless spinster from the ovaries drying up
- selfish

Stereotypes single men face

- socially awkward
- creepy
- loserish
- gay (this is a bigger insult to straight guys than most women know)
- immature

I feel like both single men and women sometimes feel driven to dating to avoid these stereotypes. Admittedly I stayed in two long-term relationships because I noticed more respect among my colleagues, family and friends that I was seeing somebody. I was thrilled to change my FB status to taken. The most disgusting result is I noticed LOTS more attention from other women. I fucking hate that, because I'm loyal and was wondering where the hell these women were when I was single and lonely.

I'm currently single right now after many frustrating, money wasting, time wasting, effort wasting and heart wasting dates. But I do have friends with benefits going on. I do still get laid.

But it dawned on me a month ago the biggest motivator I had to keep dating was because I am sick of people judging me. My family is the worst, but my friends and colleagues have in the past too. Fuck what they think.

"Plain and simple, men and women want to bang with each other, and any non-sexual relationship is basically just a facade. It is merely a forced social construct that men and women constantly share exclusively platonic relationships. No man is voluntarily in the dreaded “friend zone.” White knights, feminists, and ignorant people will deny and nay-say, but it doesn’t change the fact that for a man to hold a sexless relationship with an attractive female, there is a great deal of active suppression of sexual desires that must take place. There is a froth of sexual tension that is bubbling just below the thinly veiled surface of every unconditional opposite-sex friendship. Men do not casually make friends with attractive women. The relationship dynamic between men and women renders completely platonic friendship almost impossible due to our physical and emotional predisposition. The only thing perpetuating this contrived modern social norm is the “progressive” ideals instilled in our culture where men and women share professional work environments and strive for complete social “equality.” Men, understand that your male comrades are the only real friends you actually have."