Is she really going out with him is a great song, but how often do you hear the same lament? “Everyone I like only likes jerks.” “I’m smart and funny. Why doesn’t anyone want to be with me?” “Why is she with him?” How often have you heard or said that yourself?
The world of dating has changed significantly from your Mom and Dad’s apple pie Norman Rockwell scene. No longer do people regularly go steady through High School to marry their sweetheart after college. In fact the average person gets married at 26, followed two years later by a divorce. With the plight of older women and men fighting to meet Mr or Miss Right before biology takes over, there is an increasing amount of pressure on the single today.
With that in mind, let’s broach the subject of those folks who are nice and perpetually single. You know the type. That sweet friend of yours who seems to always be single no matter how desirable they may be. That nice guy who brings flowers to a first date and opens all doors. That sweet funny girl who lost her most recent boyfriend. We love them, but only as friends, and we want to see them happy. Or maybe that sweet funny person is you.
Today you have something special coming up,

I would like you to please do something for me at this very moment: please take a few moments to look at yourself in a mirror or a puddle of water [maybe mud if you abuse relationships], or simply try to feel or imagine what you may look like. Whatever you are, you are the result of some form of a relationship. Whether it was a relationship based on 20 years of trust or 20 minutes of alcohol or genetic research in a secret lab hidden from anti-clone people, you are the result of some form of a relationship. You yourself may have so far encountered relationships of many kinds every single day, or from time to time. This article is the beginning of a series that focuses on harmful relationship trends which may seem unrelated, but are in reality the main causes of many things that make some or all participants of such relationships unhappy.


