I was at a birthday party for my niece yesterday and of course at some point my (well meaning) brother started trying to get the "let's get bro hooked up with one of these single chicks" ball rolling. Especially after he saw me joking around and having a few laughs with one of them (who OPENED our conversation talking about breastfeeding-seriously).
My brother, his (live in) LTR/baby mama, my cousin and her husband and my grandmother all chimed in and basically interrogated me about relationships and my lack of interest in them. On and on it went, me being perfectly honest (but not callous) and them deflecting my points with a lot of "ya buts" (you guys know how this goes). I finally had to get a bit "mean" to get them to stop. Basically pointed out that I'm the most physically and mentally healthy of the lot, I have damn near zero stress in my life and I have tons of free time and no drama to contend with while they all argue constantly, stress one another out, eat like shit and don't exercise. So what exactly am I supposed to be looking to with envy?
It's amazing that unhappy people can, with straight faces, recommend their life choices to the happiest guy in the room.
And yes, of course now I'm "the bad guy" because I "disrespected people's relationships." I guess it's worse to point out the obvious (in defense of yourself) than it is to interrogate someone and judge their life choices with zero prompting.
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