I hate being an adult. And not for any of the normal reasons, like “people expect me to pay bills” and “I have to be nice to people I don’t like” and “I have to go to work even when I don’t want to.”
No, my problem since my late teens has been that people socialize in couples. As a perpetually single person, I have no good choices. I can feel left out–in some situations feel really left out–or I can stay home. In recent years, I’ve realized that I’m better off not staying home. Even if I do end up feeling sad, vulnerable, and incredibly lonely once I’m back home, by myself, at the end of the night.
Never having been part of a couple…well, at least one where my partner would be seen in public with me…it’s probably worse for me than for most people.
I only have experience being me, so I can’t know.
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