I’ve reached the point in my single life where I have everything except for love. I love my career, my best friends, my apartment, my entire world. While I’m super self-sufficient and can definitely make it on my own, I still want to add a boyfriend into the equation. My happiness doesn’t depend on a guy, but here’s why it would be nice to have one:
- I want to talk TV with someone. It’s super frustrating to watch Stranger Things and have no one to talk to about it because my friends haven’t started their binge yet. If I had a BF, we could watch together and that would pretty much be the relationship dream. It would literally be Netflix and chill — none of this other nonsense.
- I want to feel relieved. The endless hope/frustration cycle of bad first dates is getting pretty old. It would be awesome to meet someone and breathe a big sigh of relief that I can just relax and enjoy someone’s company without always thinking about my next date.
- I want to feel normal. Sure, I get that there’s no reason to be ashamed of being single, and I’m definitely proud of who I am. But sometimes it would be really nice to be in love and feel super normal — to walk down the street holding someone’s hand, to go to a party with someone by my side, to always have someone around.
- I want a support system. Friends and family can only do so much. It would be really amazing to have my very own support system — a guy who was always there to bounce ideas off of, to talk problems out with, to figure stuff out with. He wouldn’t have to listen because he was an old friend or related to me — he would want to be there, and that’s a big difference.
- I want to plan for the future. There’s only so much I can do when I’m solo and dreaming of finding true love. I pretty much designed the perfect life for myself, and I love living every day of it —but I can’t help but wonder how things will change once I do find someone, and it would be nice to know sooner rather than later.
- I want to leave all the crap behind. Every time I convince myself the terrible dates are long behind me and this next one is going to be it, it’s like the universe is laughing at me. It would be so awesome to leave all this behind — all the disappointment, questions, almost relationships and texting BS.
- I want to know I didn’t settle. At the end of the day, I would choose my single life than settling for a jerk… or even a good guy who’s just not right for me. I want to find my version of the one and know that I didn’t settle for anything less. That I stayed strong and waited. That I had faith that things would work out… and I want to know that everything happened exactly as I dreamed about.
- I want an equal partner. I can handle everything on my own as I mentioned, but that doesn’t mean life wouldn’t be a lot less stressful and much easier if I had a partner to bear some of the weight of adult responsibilities. Working together, we could lighten one another’s loads and feel content knowing that someone’s by our side to help if things get tough.
