This "pairing-off pressure", which traditionally came from our parents or grandparents, is now coming from a different, more lateral source - smug couples of the same age.
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| Smug off you smugging smugs |
It's bad enough seeing people's relationship statuses on Facebook constantly ping-pong from "single" to "in a relationship" then back to "single" again all in the space of a couple of months. But what's worse is that when they're in these relationships, they constantly vomit endless blabber about how proud they are of their hubby or how spoilt they got "just because". They then go on to patronise their Facebook followers by hoping that everyone, someday, will find a love like theirs.
Pass the bucket.
It's fucking fabulous that you got pampered on Valentine's Day, or if on your birthday your partner completely covered the bed in rose petals and then yourself in chocolate, before embarking on a wild night of passionate and animalistic sex. But, however much people comment on your updates with things like "That's so sweet babes, I'm so happy for you!!!!!!", remember one thing: No one really gives a shit.
And they especially don't give a shit when you wish it for them with remarks like "You'll find someone some day sweetheart, I just know it!". What I don't want to hear about is how someday I might find someone who can stand to be around me for extended periods of time and who might consider staying with me for the foreseeable future. I don't need someone of the same age telling me that I'll probably maybe be happy like them someday.
Why can't these girls (lets be honest it's mostly girls I'm talking about here) just be content having a "great" relationship with the person thats actually in said relationship, and not, the whole of Facebook? Why, for some people, must there always be this desire for public attention as an amazing and happy couple? And, for my last rhetorical question, shouldn't the only people who's opinion matter about the relationship be of the people actually partaking in the relationship?
It mystifies me.
And as the late Maggie Thatcher put it, "If you have to tell people you are, you aren't".
