Every time I meet a potential suitor, I am asked the following question: "Why is a woman like yourself single?" Then they like to ask questions about the last relationship I've been in.
It makes me very uncomfortable because I've been single for almost 5 years. On the surface, it appears that I have it going on: graduate school degree, attractive, independent 20-something woman. It becomes a huge turn-off if I admit that I have been alone for that period of time as if something must be wrong with me. It hurts a lot because I've had my own struggles, tried to overcome them without the pressures of a relationship and I would like to find the right man for me. However, I feel that this is one of the problems keeping me back. The longer I am single, the more likely I think I will become an old maid.
What can I do to diffuse these kind of questions about my relationship past?
2007-10-01
10:24:38
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Fly girl
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