13 Signs You’ve Been Single Too Long

The majority of us at one stage in our lives have felt a little bit like Bridget Jones… unlucky in love.

Home alone, in our pyjamas feeling a little sorry for ourselves. The only male company we have had in the past couple of months is with two gentlemen named Ben and Jerry.

For some of us however, those months have turned in to years, and now we're beginning to wonder if anyone will ever take us off this shelf… it's getting dusty up here.

Here are 13 telling signs that you’ve been single too long...

1. You have mastered the art of tanning your own back. (One to be proud)

2. You’re the friend that everyone tries to match up with their other single friends, relations, work colleagues or even random strangers they’ve met on a bus.

3. You have developed an irrational hatred to love stories and songs, if you had your own way, The Notebook would be banned.

4. AFAISK - As far as I know… You are having to Google text slang and abbreviations because it has been so long since you last engaged in a textual relationship with someone that you’ve no clue what they’re on about. 

5. When people ask you, “how long are you single,” you are able to tell the number of days (and exact amount of minutes) because you’ve spent many a long night at home alone counting them.

6. Your ‘Ex’ has had three other exes since you both broke up.

 

7. Your last relationship status update was back in the days of MSN messenger. 

8. a) You live your love life vicariously through your friends.

b) You’d arguably give any Agony Aunt a run for their money as you provide the best relationship advice, which is ironic considering the last relationship you had was the same year you made your confirmation.

9. You share your bed with a laptop, phone, or iPad and have no immediate plans to change this.

10. When you can count your previous encounters by past Christmases.

11. You’ve downloaded the entire range of Dating websites Apps, just to see what the craic is obviously.

12. People introduce you as their ‘single friend’ as oppose to your name so much that you’ve contemplated wearing a name badge.

13. You dread receiving wedding invitations, even though your friends have just got engaged and the event isn’t until 2014. That doesn’t matter because going by your track record the chances of you finding someone in that time doesn’t look great.