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Advantages of Single

Updated March 6, 2011
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Your relatives, the ones you never thought would settle down before you do, are getting married.  All of your friends are getting married too.

It isn't because you have been avoiding guys like plague or it's not because you've not been dating for the past few months.  In fact, you have changed your image so you will project more sex appeal, so you wonder what's wrong...

According to some singles, getting married isn't all that important; that they are only happy with the way things are.  They are open to marriage if the right guy come along but they will not search for the right guys to marry while others are content with work, sports and quiet weekends.

Love experts added the you're Mr. Right could be right under your nose. all along and yet you search far and wide.  Sometimes, you keep looking where you've place your eyeglasses, when all along, you're wearing it!

             

Psychologist revealed that there are many reasons why Mr. Right won't register on your radar. May be of the following reasons:

  • He is young
  • Not smart
  • Different religions
  • Too intelligent
  • Too handsome
  • Distance relatives.  Perhaps  he's a distance relatives, a cousin, a classmate or even your father or brother's friend.  As such you have conditioned your mind to see him in an "off limits"  guys.
  • He comes from a different socio-economic level.

According to relationship experts if that is you case, them you may be limiting your choice too much.  Furthermore, they believe that as long as you are not contradicting any law or religious belief then there is nothing wrong about considering "unconventional men."

Five Stages of Loving

It may come as a surprise to some, but research suggests that love isn't an emotion that comes naturally to everyone.  Unfortunately, some people don't have the ability to experience love.  Harry Harlow (1971) identified five stages if loving relationships. The five stages according to him are:

  • Maternal love.  The love of a mother for her child.
  • Infant love.  The love of the infant for its mother.
  • Peer Love.  Love of a child for another child.
  • Agemate passion.  Which is sexual love.
  • Parental love. Love of an adult male or female to his/her family.  

According to him, our experiences at each stage prepare us for the next stage.  If we are deprived of love at an early stage, we will have difficulty experiencing love at the later stages.  That's may be the reason why some prefer to be single for the rest of their lives.

Guys are nice to have around but having steady boyfriend makes you impose certain limits on yourself.

Disadvantage of having a boyfriend:

  • Shopping is no longer fun.  When you gays around, shopping stop being fun.  Most guys aren't crazy over shopping the way girls are.
  • Sometimes your boyfriend comes first. That's really uncomfortable part about having a boyfriend.  You spend a lot of time with him and you hardly get to talk to your friends anymore.
  • Dealing with stress.  Guys can stress you out.  If you have a boyfriend, chances are you constantly stress out over the possibility that some hottie could lure him away from you.  Jealousy kicks in each time he has no time for you.
  • Nobody to please.  If you are unattached, you don't have to go crazy with makeup, perfume, sexy clothes because you have nobody to impress.
  • You can break his heart.  Or worst he could break yours.
  • With boyfriend you cannot enjoy being carefree.  Think first before you take the plunge!

Resource:

         Santos, Lizzie, "Still Single? (You May be Loved-blind!)"

         M. Katie, "Advantage of Being Single," Women's Journal 03 Dec 05