Signs You've Been Single For Too Long

Q: How have you spent the last few Saturday nights?

A: I had my dinner early and went to bed with a book and then fell asleep. What else am I supposed to do?

…Staying single for long is no crime, but if you are remaining unhappily single, then it’s a matter of concern. Here are some signs that may indicate you are going single for quite an extended period:

A woman and her love for a man are crucial in making a person more refined and presentable. If your sense of etiquette takes a backseat, then it’s for sure that you are well into singlehood. Messy looks, absence of proper dining manners, too much of bodily noise in the company of opposite sex are some clear indicators of your single status.

Singlehood for a long time period takes its toll on your confidence level. You start suffering from inferiority complex. Even if a lady gives you glances of appreciation, you perceive them as stares of ridicule. The foremost thing that most girls look in their man is his confidence, and you are lacking in this department!

To you, 14th Feb doesn’t carry any significance. You have forgotten what’s so special about the day. Valentine’s day comes and goes like any other ordinary day and you remain engrossed with your day-to-day work.

You are not smiling while everyone around is enjoying a romantic comedy like ‘When Harry met Sally’. Tears aren’t rolling down your cheeks watching the last few reels of ‘Sleepless in Seattle’.

There is a dearth of female friends in your life. You only talk business with colleagues of the opposite sex. They are quite apprehensive about bringing forward any informal topic in front of you.

Your mother is the only woman in your life with whom you share your greatest comfort level. You are trying hard to find the qualities of your mother in every woman you come across.

Your mom’s dating advices have become your sole guidebook for getting your gal.

Extreme loneliness leads to desperation and it has happened in your case. You are not very sure about your future and contemplating to go for an arranged matrimony someday.

Your parents are even thinking of fixing you with one of your distant relatives.

Pornography has become your sole way of getting entertained and you are now a regular at the nearby adult video shop. You may forget to meet your childhood friend, but you never fail to switch on your DVD player every night for watching these kinds of movies.

You have resorted to sex toys and blow-up dolls for fulfilling your sexual urge as you have somehow given up on the dating game.

Staying glued to online video games means that you have quit the dating scenario.

People have started assuming you as gay. They are just hell-bent to hook you up with another guy.

You think you have become the object of desire of every woman. You have also started fantasizing sexual things about each and every member of the fairer sex at the least possible instances.

You have lost the art of behaving in presence of women. In your eyes, they are mere prop for quenching your lust.

You have become extremely picky in selecting a girl who can be the perfect marriage material and you are trying to find their fault at no reason whatsoever.

Suddenly, you have started falling for each and every girl you encounter. The erstwhile ugly duckling becomes the prettiest girl you have ever met. All these things are happening because you think you are mismatch for the really pretty girls and as if there is no other alternative, your dating standards take a nosedive.

You have started keeping all your emotions and sentiments pent up. Using your mental treasures to woo your girl has become a thing of the past.

Jealousy creeps in your mind looking at your friend with his beautiful girlfriend in arms. Every time you catch the glimpse of a happy couple, you feel dejected from within.

You start trying hard to turn your female friends into your prospective girlfriend. You start telling bad things about the guy she likes to get him out of the picture.

The names of your ex-friends come in your mind again and again. They even start coming in your dreams.

You are shying away from meeting new people. Your social life comes to an abrupt halt.

You are keeping yourself away from embarking upon some new ventures. Even, joining a yoga class gives butterflies in your stomach.

You become rigid in your actions and roam around with a grumpy image. Getting angry for no particular reasons has become your trait.

No new clothes are there in your wardrobe. You have forgotten the way to the shopping mall.

‘Early to bed & early to rise…’ have become your motto. You spend too much time on domestic details like cleaning the tiles of your bathroom etc.

You prefer junk foods to home-cooked delicacies and as a result, your physical health is deteriorating.

If you are having at least half of all these symptoms, then you need immediate help. Otherwise, your life may go haywire. Just get back into the mode of meeting and dating women, because there is no better medicine in this world than a woman’s pure love for a man!