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Aussie_Devilette is offline Aussie_Devilette Post #1  November 24,2008, 11:56pm
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With so many of us on here bemoaning (to at least some degree) that we are single and not finding "the one", I thought perhapsit might be an idea to remind ourselves that being single isn't all bad, there are some benefits.
  1. We can sleep where we like, when we like, with whom we like, for whatever reason we like. That's if we can find a "whom" in the first place. Oh, well.
  2. No fighting over the remote control.
  3. We can have cereal for dinner if we feel like it.
  4. No-one questions if "one drink with a girlfriend after work" turns into an early morning.
  5. The flip side of 4 is that no-one falls through the front door at 3am, drops clothes from one end of the house to the other, crashes into bed and through the smell of stale beer slurs "I wuv you, how 'bout a bit?"
  6. You can get another dog if you want to - it is YOUR life! (Nod to the lady with the 2 dog thread here).
  7. You don't have to explain spending $500 on a new pair of shoes or (for the men) the latest techo gadget. Hmmmmm -we can do both, even.
  8. No going into the toilet to find an empty toilet roll! Yeeee Haaaa
  9. You want to fly to Queensland (ok Florida for the USA) for a weekend - go for it!
  10. You can drool over your personal trainer with a clear conscience.


Ok - there's a start - have at it everyone - what other benefits can you see!
 
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Aussie_Devilette, wrote :

With so many of us on here bemoaning (to at least some degree) that we are single and not finding "the one", I thought perhapsit might be an idea to remind ourselves that being single isn't all bad, there are some benefits.
  1. We can sleep where we like, when we like, with whom we like, for whatever reason we like. That's if we can find a "whom" in the first place. Oh, well.
  2. No fighting over the remote control.
  3. We can have cereal for dinner if we feel like it.
  4. No-one questions if "one drink with a girlfriend after work" turns into an early morning.
  5. The flip side of 4 is that no-one falls through the front door at 3am, drops clothes from one end of the house to the other, crashes into bed and through the smell of stale beer slurs "I wuv you, how 'bout a bit?"
  6. You can get another dog if you want to - it is YOUR life! (Nod to the lady with the 2 dog thread here).
  7. You don't have to explain spending $500 on a new pair of shoes or (for the men) the latest techo gadget. Hmmmmm -we can do both, even.
  8. No going into the toilet to find an empty toilet roll! Yeeee Haaaa
  9. You want to fly to Queensland (ok Florida for the USA) for a weekend - go for it!
  10. You can drool over your personal trainer with a clear conscience.


Ok - there's a start - have at it everyone - what other benefits can you see!
I think along with your #8, you can have the toilet seat alwaysdown (or up) as you like it.
 
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I liked what you had on another thread...one can pick their own furniture style!!!
 
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rg26 is offline rg26 Post #4  November 25,2008, 6:04am
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I can spend ALL my holidays with my family and NONE with the in-laws. Now that's livin!
 
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* I can leave my dishes in the sink and do them in the morning.


* I can decide what I want to do, when I want to do it - not locked into any plans. And I can change my plans last minute if I want!


* I don't share breathing space in my sleep with someone who's sick.


* I don't have to ask permission to go to a lecture, a play, a comedy show after work.


* I don't have to lie around on the couch all weekend cause he's too tired to go play.


* I can flirt in line in the grocery store.


* Spontaneous road trip!


* Spontaneous rafting / hiking / fishing trip!


* When my friends need help, they know they can ask me and I'll be there cause I'm don't have other obligations to other people.


* When my friends have an extra ticket to something they can ask me and know I'll be there because (see above).


* I can decorate my house and lawn however I want.


* I can lie around in pjs all day if I really want to.


* No fighting!
 
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No emotional roller coaster rides!


You can say yes to any invitation that you want to accept!
 
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So let me get this straight. You’re on an eharmony board posting about the benefits of being single. Well, I’m single now, a widower, and my feelings about being single can be summed up in two words … it stinks!

However, your post got me to thinking about a lot of things and as I was contemplating the meaning of life, whether crop circles are really a hoax, did we really land on the moon, that my utility bill increased when the price of gas went up and it’s not decreasing as the price of gas goes down … I had an epiphany, while sober, and it’s this:

Life has stacked the odds against you and me and everyone else finding ‘the one’. I have a 60 mile radius set up for the eharmony search. There’s 8 million people within that radius. Remove the marrieds with kids, single people that don’t want a long term deal with someone, and those that are not in good enough physical condition to do the humpty dumpty, and the number drops to maybe to 2 million. Out of that number, say that 50,000 can afford to join eharmony. Out of the 50,000, say about 12,000 are in the age range I specified. From the 12,000, the mysterious eharmony patent No. 6,735,568 matching algorithm runs, and say the number drops from 12,000 to 3,000. From what I’ve heard, not all 3,000 are paying customers on the system. So the number drops from 3,000 to around 700.

For me to establish communication with one of the 700, we have to be on the system at the same time, we have to be matched, we both have to leave the match open, one of us has to reach out to the other, the other has to respond, we do the eharmony Q&A waltz and we end up in open communication where we start to find out what the other person is all about. And this is before the first date. I get better odds playing blackjack in Vegas.

So I try to increase the odds by launching the first set of questions to every match I get. I’m not concerned too much about their photo because photos can be deceiving. What bugs me is that few respond and they stack the odds further against themselves without realizing it. I recently got closed out because she didn’t feel the chemistry before she ever respond to my first questions. What chemistry is that? Here’s the definition of chemistry from Webster.com:

3 a: a strong mutual attraction, attachment, or sympathy b: interaction between people working together ; specifically : such interaction when harmonious or effective

Note the words interaction, attachment, sympathy. So unless the other person is using the Jedi Mind Trick or a Vulcan Mind Meld with her laptop, there’s no way she’s gonna feel any chemistry except maybe a rise in the level of Estrogen becausea guy looks like Brad Pitt.

Just my 2 cents. I have 98 cents left.
 
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1. My house stays clean


2. I don't have to buy valentines gifts, birthday gifts or xmas gifts, which means I can buy myself more stuff.


3. Noone will complain about the cat sleeping in bed with me


4. No snoring partner to keep me staring at the ceiling tiles


5. No need for a second tv to be able to watch my chick shows


6. No beard hair clippings all over the bathroom sink!


7. Everything in my apartment is mine, and things stay exactly as I put them
 
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Gr8Guyn2008 is offline Gr8Guyn2008 Post #9  November 25,2008, 7:15am
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tooblunt,358205 wrote :

No emotional roller coaster rides!


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I have to disagree muchly with this one!
 
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My house can stay dirty! Ok, it's not that bad, but at least I can leave the tack I was cleaning in the living room over night and not have someone say 'You're just going to leave your saddle in there?' Yep, I am. Until I take it back to the barn!


And I love the spontaneous road trip! That's why I keep both my travel bags loaded with toiletries. Just have to add clothes.
 
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