WHY do SOME PEOPLE ASSUME I am UNHAPPY and LOOKING for someone BECAUSE I am BY MYSELF and I am NOT currently IN a RELATIONSHIP?

This is ridicules beyond words...

ALL my LIFE I have always felt ALONE, I have been LOST but I have been WITH PEOPLE and I have DONE what was EXPECTED of ME, I have put EVERYONE FIRST and MYSELF LAST.

NOW, I am FINALLY ABLE to really CONCENTRATE ON MYSELF and BE MYSELF.

I have WANTED and WAITED to TO BE ME all of MY LIFE.

I would NOT TRADE this TIME in MY LIFE for ANYTHING in the World.

WHY is that SO HARD for SOME PEOPLE to UNDERSTAND?

NO, of course I don't WANT to be ALONE for the rest of MY life and I have NO DOUBT that SOMEDAY I will MEET the RIGHT PERSON for ME to LOVE and SPEND the rest of MY LIFE with.

But FOR NOW, I am ENJOYING this TIME ALONE, I am putting MYSELF FIRST, everything I DO is ABOUT ME and it's WONDERFUL!

So SOME PEOPLE really need to STOP ASSUMING things about ME, just BECAUSE it's what THEY themselves WANT, does NOT MEAN "IT'S" what I WANT as well.

I am NOT the TYPE of PERSON to go LOOKING or CHASING after SOMEONE, I NEVER have BEEN and I NEVER will BE. I NEED NO one to SUPPORT me, I NEED NO one to TAKE CARE of me and I NEED NO one to MARRY me.

I am NOT the one WHO is DESPERATE here...

So FOR anyone who THINKS THEY are DOING me a FAVOR, STOP FLATTERING YOURSELF, it's making YOU DELUSIONAL, really.

Yes, I AM somewhere "BETWEEN" JUVENILE and SENILE and that MAKES ME very HAPPY. :D

Nice…I can relate. Having worked service most of my life, I am enjoying taking care of just myself. It is odd for me to see people in between relationships absolutely frantic about getting back into one. For them, it seems, life is not complete without another warm body around. The assumptions thing has always been, and I suspect will always be. I guess I am different enough that people just have to talk about me. In fact, there would be so much talk and so many assumptions that I came up with a question that would not have me defending myself all the time. When someone came up with something strange that someone else said, I just simply asked: does that sound like me, and discussion is over. Worked pretty well for me.

i wish i felt like that! currenlty i broke up with my girlfriend of 3 years and i feel like garbage. you say that you feel good thinking and actinf for your self? tellmeyour technique to it, cause i feel HORRIBLE.

"WHY do SOME PEOPLE ASSUME I am UNHAPPY and LOOKING for someone BECAUSE I am BY MYSELF and I am NOT currently IN a RELATIONSHIP? " Probably because that's how NT's see things ... that every single person automatically must be looking for someone to be with. It's seen as somehow unusual to prefer to live alone.

I want to be happy with someone. When will it happen?