Why are you still single?

I've got news. I hate this question. Please don't ask it. My standard, polite, for people I think are trying to be genuine, answer: "I simply haven't found the right guy for me yet." My pissy, for-pete's-sake-this-question-again answer... "If I knew that, I guess I wouldn't be." or "It's my choice to be single right now, because I'd rather be single and available for a good relationship than feeling stuck in something I don't think works."

I think that it is intended to be a compliment. It's like saying, "wow, I see how great you are, why hasn't anyone snatched you up yet?".... but what it doesn't do is take into consideration the fact that those out there who are looking to do the snatching... well, they simply don't seem to be falling into categories that make me put out my "welcome snatchers" mat.

I have ideas, some would say standards, or at least expectations, of what I want, like, and deserve out of being one half of a couple. What I've found out there in the big bad world of being actively single is that generally, it's going to be hard to find the someone who has the same ideas about that... oh, and who I also find attractive... that's pretty important too.

I'm still single because he's still out there. Or, I'm still single because I'm destined to be the single crazy aunt who fills her life with other things because I don't want a cat. My feeling on which one applies varies by the day, sometimes by the hour. Today, he's still out there.

What I hope to give you here, is just a little about me, and some amusing stories that cover my trials and tribulations in regards to being an active single... from bar scenes to various single communities... see, you didn't even know there were various single communities did you? Well, there are, and I've been there.... and so far, it's pretty hysterical.