Just pointing this out. Expect your driver to be prepared for NOTHING. Uber/Lyft is not a professional service, it’s some guy/girl making some extra cash in their own personal car, they can’t be expected to be prepared for EVERY scenario. There are baby carriers, toddler seats, booster seats, I’ve had people request a…

I was in this position when a friend of mine got married. It was a bit different, I was coupled, but was having relationship issues about my boyfriend not committing and it tore me up to see her get engaged to someone she’s known for half as long as I had known my bf at the time. It was painful.

You’ve basically described why I don’t go to anyone’s wedding and refrain from being involved in most ways: I don’t expect any of these people to give two shits when I get married. If you couldn’t make it out for my birthday five years in a row, I’m not making an effort to come to your wedding. And I shouldn’t even…

This is slightly off topic, but one thing that always bothers me about singlehood narratives (and I’m not necessarily talking about this one because I think the author does touch on this) is that when single people say they want a relationship the advice is always - “GET COMFORTABLE WITH BEING SINGLE” no matter the…

Absolutely. I had a friend in a couple who I tried hard to still be friends with, but it slowly dawned on me after many attempts that I had just been a placeholder till she found a man. She’s engaged now, and has decided she “doesn’t want” bridesmaids. Hm...Wonder why?

That’s fine, as long as you get that friendships are also relationships to be maintained, and if you don’t, they won’t be there later. It sucks to know you’re at the end of someone’s priority list, and frankly, that’s not a person I’m going to work very hard to spend time with when they turn around and decide they…

This is so upsetting. I’m sorry everyone was so dismissive of your milestone event. It sounds like you just wanted to feed people/ply them with drinks/have them celebrate with you and they could barely manage that. We all get wedding fatigue, but that doesn’t mean we get to shit on other people because of it.

I’ve had more than one former friend flat out tell me she wasn’t comfortable being friends anymore once she married.

Yeah, couples are kind of the problem here (I’m coupled myself), and I will say there is a definite benefit to have couple friends as a couple, but you need to be able to include singles in your hangout time. But I definitely see couples as the ones more likely to avoid their single friends than vice versa.

Very much this. I have wonderful friends who married wonderful partners who I enjoy spending time with, but there are times I want to be with JUST my friend. I actually have a hard time understanding why people want to bring their SO everywhere. There are times I don’t want my SO there.

If you are coupled, don’t be a dick to your single friends. Try hard to make sure you still see them and hang out.

To add to that: don’t just assume your SO is always welcome. They’re friends with YOU.

Personally, it would make me feel worse to think my best friend thought I couldn’t handle her news than actually hearing the news. I am always happy for friends when they reach relationship milestones, even if there are times I wish I was in a relationship.

Yeah, the article says singles should make time for couples, but in my experience it’s the couples who tend to close ranks and only do things together or with other couples.

Here’s another hard truth about being the last single person in your group of friends: if you do ever get married, no one will ever give a shit because they all did their thing and everyone else’s thing and they’re mentally done with it by the time your wedding rolls around.

If you are coupled, don’t be a dick to your single friends. Try hard to make sure you still see them and hang out. That said, I remember when I was single and then became coupled or vice versa, I would realize the entire basis of a friendship could be that we were both single and literally had nothing else in common…

You get in a cab and hold your kid.

Yeah, those requirements suck! I usually just take my password manager’s generated password, and add/replace a character or two to fit the requirements. Minimal reduction of entropy.

Once you have a copy on a different device, that won’t get returned. I’m probably not supposed to acknowledge that though.

Sorry, that could have been clearer. Small Frostys are 50 cents but I used medium Frostys because I was unaware of the promotion and like wasting company money, I guess.