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Why are you still single? Here’s The Secret To This Annoying Question

It’s almost as bad as asking why you don’t have children right? Are we broken, because we live by our own rules of life, that break the box you want to shove us in?

Sara Burdick
8 min readDec 28, 2021
Photo by Mark Duffel on Unsplash

Do not stray stay in your box, society can’t handle the outliers.

I have a few friends who have trouble standing up for what they want. It is frustrating to hear their stories about how their holidays were. Their families asked them a billion questions along the lines of.

Why did you get a nose ring? What are you doing with your life? Do you have a job? I don’t understand how you make money.

I would like to add. When are you going to settle down, and why are you still single? I resonate with these questions because I live this life.

I am not single anymore, but let’s pretend that this is a question from August of this year and the past 5 years of my life. The number one question I get/got was.

Why are you still single?

Why is it any of your business is what I really want to say, except I don’t? Instead, I make up reasons; I just can’t find what I…

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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