The SAD support group thread

This year it falls on a Saturday. I will be inebriated with NyQuil and asleep.

Aw Baha. If I liked girls that way, I'd give you chocolate and candy hearts.

Well, the candy hearts. The chocolate I don't think I could bring myself to part with.

OH, here I thought you meant Seasonal Affective Disorder for those of us suffering from cabin fever.

Ah yes, Valentine's Day, the tail end of the crappy holiday season for me. The stores are filled with cute little bears, angels, hearts, etc taunting me, reminding me that yes, I am still sleeping alone.

Yes, I am single by choice. Yes, there are things about being single that I enjoy. But, I would like to experience a real life relationship with a great guy before I get too old to enjoy it. That's one experience that is missing from my life.

Forget the chocolate, where's the tequila?

On the bright side, my creative muse will arise from her slumber on the 15th and I will soon be hip deep in various creative projects. She's already stirring and generating craft projects for me to work on.

Bahamutchild said:

Now hurry up and put the chocolate on clearance so I can stock up.

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That's what I love about Halloween, Valentines Day, and Easter. Not necessarily the day itself (though Easter is great at our house), but the half price sales the day after.

One year we went out in the week after Easter and loaded up our shopping basket with chocolate that was on sale for 90% off the regular retail price! We literally had a whole cartful, that lasted us for months, and the only reason we spent so much was my mom tossed in a two-dollar bag of chips.

Bahamutchild said:

Amen sister. Any idea where they are keeping those great guys?

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I've been divorced for almost sixteen years. I have no freaking clue.

They must exist as there are at least one or two happily married women running around here somewhere. Maybe we should ask one of them where the great guys are being kept.

I think we should invent a holiday and buy each other presents.

Aaaaanyhoo...yeah, I'm single. Mainly because I live in the arse end of nowhere and the guys here are all overweight, women-hating alcoholics. (No, really).

Point the first: If I was in a relationship I sure as hell wouldn't rely on tacky pink gifts to make me feel good about my partner. And I wouldn't tell him/her I loved them on one day a year, either, just because the media/world of commercialism told me to.

Point the second: I don't need a man to buy me presents. I'm my own best friend, so I treat myself.

attn Bahamut & others above:
Any guy would be lucky to have you for a mate.
So keep up your spirits. Mr Right is bound to come a knockin' soon

Well. I assume you mean that as an encouragement BUT I would say this:

You assume single women want a man. Or a woman. Whatever.

If any guy would be lucky to have them, where are all these guys?

It's a cliche to say "There's someone out there for everyone." Not that you did, but I'm reminded of the times I've been told this. It simply isn't true. I know women in their 40s, 50s and older who have never married. Some haven't wanted to. Some have, and didn't meet anyone.

So...yeah, this is me being a little ray of sunshine.

Don't hold out your hopes for a man (or woman) to save you because despite what people say, it IS possible that you'll be single forever, so just look after yourself.

scarletpeaches, the black dog in human form.

...and if you're single and satisfied, power to you

Having said that, I'd like to marry a millionaire with a heart condition who owned a chocolate factory...

Here in Atlanta, and in some other cities, too, there's a Valentine's day "Bitter Ball". Might be one near you.

I'll be very interested to see if one or two folks who were single last year and bitterly against Valentine's Day will be quite so anti now they have boyfriends...

(No-one on this site, just so you know).

Please. Make. The. Tacky. Diamond. Jewelry. Commercials. STOP.

Ken said:

attn Bahamut & others above:
Any guy would be lucky to have you for a mate.
So keep up your spirits. Mr Right is bound to come a knockin' soon

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... You're such a Sweetheart, Ken.

Siddow said:

Here in Atlanta, and in some other cities, too, there's a Valentine's day "Bitter Ball". Might be one near you.

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... I'm not bitter. I'd rather live alone than be married to man like my ex. I'll find one who isn't, one of these days.

I want to go on the record that pink--wigs me out.
I am allergic to roses.
I hate cheap hard stale chocolates.

If I may ask. "Where the hell were all of you when I was single?"
Just asking.

I wasn't born yet.

*snerk*