14 Consimbs 4385: Relationship Status: It's Not That Complicated

[delight_in]

Hiiii Boomsy-kaboomsy-make-me-a-loomsy! I'm really glad your hearing went well and not just because it means I'll get the lozens I lent you back! Well lent Pinsitter after she lent you you know what I mean

Comments

[sythyry]

I definitely claim the Zi Ri advantage on this point! I rarely get assaulted by more than two relatives at the same party.

[boomstarter]

I daresay that your relations would not anticipate your bearing children during the first few centuries of your life, neither.

[sythyry]

Another important and relevant truth!

[delight_in]

I'm not sorry I'm not a Zi Ri though I'd miss all my relatives!

[terrycloth]

I hate it when I can't live up to peoples' expectations.

Maybe you can tell them you're dating one of the locador angels. Isn't there one that impales you on his spines on a regular basis? That might be flirting.

[tuftears]

Wait, what if the Locador angel is flirting at Delight? Ohnoes!

[delight_in]

I don't think Locador angels have relationships like that not normally anyway.

[delight_in]

... I don't think that would get people asking me LESS questions about the subject! D:

[gavinfox]

Yea... it's the basic expectation that people can't be, you know, fulfilled without romantic engagement in their life. Some people CAN be perfectly happy going through large parts of their life without even any attempt at romance!

Unfortunately, if social expectations are such that these sort of people are encouraged to get in relationships anyway, and tend to hide this proclivity, it can be hard for people to get that, you know, you don't actually want to date someone... the idea that people might like to stay single isn't part of their conceptual space!

Let me put it this way:

Is seeking or being in a romantic relationship (or a few!) part of who you are, who you want to be, or how you see yourself in the next few years?

[delight_in]

I'm sure it will be someday!