Even though I’d love to be in a relationship, I hate the process involved in getting there. Dating is exhausting and time-consuming, and I always wish I could skip right over it and just put myself into a loving, happy partnership. This is why I really don’t want to have to kiss any more frogs before finding my prince:
- Finding an eligible bachelor is hard. How do people meet people nowadays? Once college ends, you aren’t exactly conversing with strangers on the daily. Am I supposed to go the bars? Blind dates? I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be hooked up with my friend’s cousin’s brother’s old roommate. Guys aren’t exactly walking around with a sign that says, “I’m single and ready for something real.”
- My friends don’t seem happy. I see what dating is doing to my friends. Every other week, they swear off men because of how unhappy they are with the dating scene. Well, damn! If those rad chicks aren’t having any luck dating, what hope is there for me?
- I don’t want to lower my expectations. My expectations for a partner are high, and I think that’s because of how little I date. I haven’t had enough experience to truly get disappointed. No guy has ever puked all over my clothes or called me a “bitch” (to my face). Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good thing. But now I have these high expectations, I don’t want dating to lower them.
- Online dating isn’t for me. I’m not going to lie and say I’ve never been on Tinder. At first, the matches were coming in hot, and I was feeling good about the experience and myself. But then, I started getting spammed with messages about what I was wearing and what my favorite sex position was. Nah.
- Texting is stupid. Unless someone’s telling me something super quick, I don’t want to text. Seriously, why don’t more people talk on the phone? It’s way better than dealing with misinterpretations and all the ambiguity that goes along with texting. But alas, dating means texting… and having to make “hey” sound like the sexiest phrase ever typed. I can’t hang with that.
- I want my perfect match to find me. I want to be standing in the middle of the street to find my soulmate running towards me (with flowers and chocolates). Is that really so far-fetched? I want to meet one guy that I just automatically click with so much that we never really date — we just become a couple without even thinking about it. Sure, it’s a little unrealistic, but a girl can dream, right?
- I don’t like the games. I don’t want the guy to wait a few days to call me after a date. And I don’t want to have to worry about him “dating” me and 5 other girls at the same time. How do you know if you’re in an actual relationship? Does he ask you or do you just assume? There are too many up-for-interpretation rules and I don’t want to have to learn them.
- People are getting weirder and weirder. I’ve heard so many dating horror stories — and that was before this clown epidemic and everyone’s obsession with serial killer documentaries. I’m not trying to go on dates with people with some sort of psycho agenda. People are strange, and I’m not trying to find out just how strange they could potentially get.
- I don’t want to be rejected. They say you have to date a few lousy people before you find your person. Of course, there are those exceptions to the rule, but I’m not one of them. I’ve dated before, and yet, here I am, still single AF and filled with remorse over the rejection I received in the past. And I have to experience more of that before having a real relationship? That doesn’t sound like fun at all.
- I don’t want to lose myself. Right now, I have a pretty good grasp of who I am. And even though my dating experience isn’t lengthy, I know what I want in a guy. To be honest, I’m fine waiting for that immediate attraction with the guy sitting next to me on the bus — it beats losing myself in the emotionally exhausting world of dating.
