You only split up with your fella a couple of months ago didn't you?
Let them do what they like. Mortgages and families aren't my thing either and I don't feel under pressure. I'm well older than all of my mates (who are mostly paired off) and never felt like the token single nor did it affect my social life. Do something about your outlook gal!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 12:12, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Yes Roota, sorry Roota.
It doesn't help that my family keeps nagging me about boyfriends and families and shit either, I do genuinely feel a bit like I 'ought' to be chasing these things because they are apparently the 'normal' things that everybody my age 'wants' to be doing. This is backed up by the fact that probably 80% of my mates are in fact doing them.

Oh well, bollocks to them. I'm going to have a career and go travelling and get a cat instead.
(berk, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 12:18, Reply)

fuck normal
do what you want to do. it's your life, not your family's or anyone else's

I have a house and am getting married because I want to, not through some feeling that I ought to be doing it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 12:20, Reply)

Eugh my family does this
everytime I mention a boy in passing, I get the inevitable question. This may be however because my mother is deathly afraid that I'm a lesbian
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 12:21, Reply)

Many years ago before I got engaged, I used to be on the receiving end of comments from relatives
Whenever there was a family wedding or Christening. Things like, 'Oooh, you'll be next'.

It soon stops when you start making the same comment to them at family funerals.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 12:24, Reply)

Hahaha

( Kroney, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 12:25, Reply)

Do it.
You'll see what I'm on about. Jesus, I only have the cat bit, not even the career or the travelling, but I'm still really happy and sod everyone else.
(I know I have a bloke now but he's still fairly recent, and fortunately I don't have to see him too often, so I'm still living the single life. Got a date with a pool attendant tonight.)
I'm actually watching that thing about the English National Ballet and the second half of How to Train your Dragon Tonight. Alone. With my cat. In tracky bottoms.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 12:23, Reply)