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Relationships vs On The Pull

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭StinkySocs


    I would totally love to be in a relationship.
    I was seeing a guy for a while, but that ended and it was so nice to have someone to do things with, when all ur mates are going for dinner with their OH.
    I hate being single.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭force majeure


    A relationship full stop... noting beats having a stable home setting and a person for who you can know and depend on.... quiet how you can be happy playing the field I can never understand.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    A relationship full stop... noting beats having a stable home setting and a person for who you can know and depend on.... quiet how you can be happy playing the field I can never understand.

    so you're saying you can't be happy and be alone? Just because you're single doesn't mean you're "playing the field". To be honest when I think of the most fulfilled, stress free, times in my life, I was always single.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Abitar wrote: »
    Someone pass me a bucket :p

    Bukakee? :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭Ticktactoe


    It depends on what you want out of life - freedom or company?
    Been single can often be the lonely choice however staying in a loveless relationship for fear of 'singledom' is without doubt the lonelier choice.

    Open relationship, now that should be on the poll!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Can you be in a relationship where you only have to see the OH when you want to watch a dvd and have a bottle of wine??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    I wouldn't want either of those, tbh. Don't want a relationship, don't wanna be with a different person every week. I'd take a relationship over "on the pull", but a relationship of a casual nature, if that makes any sense at all. I can't stand the "I love you sooooo much, you're the bestest and we have to see each other all the time, hold hands everywhere we go... My life wouldn't be the same without you" BS, especially after a month or two. Back. Off.



    Jesus, I don't know when I became so... bitter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Can you be in a relationship where you only have to see the OH when you want to watch a dvd and have a bottle of wine??

    Showing my age now, but there used to be a comedy show called My Wife Next Door :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    I can't really vote in this poll, as my opinion changes all the time.

    I've only been single for about 2 months, and I was with someone for 2 years before that. I loved being in a relationship but I definitely sometimes craved the single life. Now that I'm single, it's nice to go out and have fun, maybe kiss some boys, but it's all still kinda new to me and I know that in a few months I'll probably miss being in a relationship.

    Definitely miss having someone just to spend evenings in with. And the sex, definitely miss the sex. The worst thing is not having regular sex. I couldn't be arsed shagging some randomer, I'd rather do it with someone I'm comfortable with and who I know is good! I agree with Novella's post...I want the fun stuff without all the mushy sh*te. Gotta find me one of those f*ck buddies!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    I've recently been made single and I'd do anything for that not be case. :( Worst part is for the first 5 seconds you wake up, everything is fine. Then it hits you like a truck, BAM! Alone for another day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    I've recently been made single and I'd do anything for that not be case. :( Worst part is for the first 5 seconds you wake up, everything is fine. Then it hits you like a truck, BAM! Alone for another day.


    :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    I can't really vote in this poll, as my opinion changes all the time.

    I've only been single for about 2 months, and I was with someone for 2 years before that. I loved being in a relationship but I definitely sometimes craved the single life. Now that I'm single, it's nice to go out and have fun, maybe kiss some boys, but it's all still kinda new to me and I know that in a few months I'll probably miss being in a relationship.

    Definitely miss having someone just to spend evenings in with. And the sex, definitely miss the sex. The worst thing is not having regular sex. I couldn't be arsed shagging some randomer, I'd rather do it with someone I'm comfortable with and who I know is good! I agree with Novella's post...I want the fun stuff without all the mushy sh*te. Gotta find me one of those f*ck buddies!

    Good mornin'


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    I've recently been made single and I'd do anything for that not be case. :( Worst part is for the first 5 seconds you wake up, everything is fine. Then it hits you like a truck, BAM! Alone for another day.

    Jesus and I thought I was depressed over it. There's always things like beer, and football, and comfort food, and the fact that you'll get laid again some day, and it will feel better than the one that just dumped you.

    Or you might get bone cancer or something and die before another woman even touches you but that's life huh?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭littlefriend


    Gotta find me one of those f*ck buddies!
    You can have some of mine - no worries ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    You can have some of mine - no worries ;)


    How many have you got? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Jesus and I thought I was depressed over it. There's always things like beer, and football, and comfort food, and the fact that you'll get laid again some day, and it will feel better than the one that just dumped you.

    Or you might get bone cancer or something and die before another woman even touches you but that's life huh?

    Yeah, I get that but they all feel like consolation prizes. I'm not as depressed as I was a week ago and I know that 'time heals all wounds'. She says she still loves me but that our lives are going in different paths. I don't know if the 'loves' part makes it better or worse. I can't walk away from her no matter how hard I try. (Actually this should probably be PI, but **** it :D)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭littlefriend


    How many have you got? :eek:

    Ah i'm only messing


    m@cc@ - ya poor thing. You will be fine, total nightmare now but it'll pass.

    You were too good for her anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    I agree with Novella's post...I want the fun stuff without all the mushy sh*te. Gotta find me one of those f*ck buddies!

    So why were woman starting in the 80's and 90's telling us guys that we needed to open up more and be more romantic and talk and express ourselves emotionally etc etc.

    Now that they have, women turn on them and say it's mushy :p

    I swear to God, you'll have us all in the madhouse.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    Yeah, I get that but they all feel like consolation prizes. I'm not as depressed as I was a week ago and I know that 'time heals all wounds'. She says she still loves me but that our lives are going in different paths. I don't know if the 'loves' part makes it better or worse. I can't walk away from her no matter how hard I try. (Actually this should probably be PI, but **** it :D)

    you just have to. I had to. And no contact in a month. She'll never get a bloke as hot as me again anyway. At least I have that consolation :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Pyr0


    At this stage of my life I'd rather a casual thing with someone, you know the type. Hanging out every so often, watching a movie, fooling around. Pretty much a relationship in a casual way just without the commitment of a seriously emotional relationship.

    Saying that, I'm only really feeling this way after a break up from a serious relationship. Don't want to get into anything heavy just yet but I'm a relationship man at heart.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    you just have to. I had to. And no contact in a month. She'll never get a bloke as hot as me again anyway. At least I have that consolation :D

    Oh, it's the same for me. I doing it for her sake as much as I mine. I mean, if she doesn't get back with me, lesbianism is the only path for her. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    So why were woman starting in the 80's and 90's telling us guys that we needed to open up more and be more romantic and talk and express ourselves emotionally etc etc.

    Now that they have, women turn on them and say it's mushy :p

    I swear to God, you'll have us all in the madhouse.

    TBH, I think I just don't have that gene that most women have! I don't mind a LITTLE bit of mushiness....every now and again. On a similar vein, I also don't want to get 10 texts/phonecalls a day, just to say hi. Get a life!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,347 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    I've recently been made single and I'd do anything for that not be case. :( Worst part is for the first 5 seconds you wake up, everything is fine. Then it hits you like a truck, BAM! Alone for another day.

    I know the feeling. Welcome to the club, just made single the day before Paddy's Day and a couple of days before my Birthday.
    :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    The reason I haven't been in a proper relationship, I reckon, is the fact that I can be massive craic on a night out, give a girl so many laughs (which is what does it) but then morning after couldn't give two sh1ts.
    Mon - fri I don't really wanna know anyone.

    Anyone like this who still has managed to get someone likeminded??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Pyr0 wrote: »
    At this stage of my life I'd rather a casual thing with someone, you know the type. Hanging out every so often, watching a movie, fooling around. Pretty much a relationship in a casual way just without the commitment of a seriously emotional relationship.

    Saying that, I'm only really feeling this way after a break up from a serious relationship. Don't want to get into anything heavy just yet but I'm a relationship man at heart.

    This would be the way I would feel about it. Don't know if I ever could go back to a serious long termer again though.

    Once bitten, twice shy and all that.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    The reason I haven't been in a proper relationship, I reckon, is the fact that I can be massive craic on a night out, give a girl so many laughs (which is what does it) but then morning after couldn't give two sh1ts.
    Mon - fri I don't really wanna know anyone.

    Anyone like this who still has managed to get someone likeminded??

    Think I wanna go out with you meself .. heartbreaker :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    TBH, I think I just don't have that gene that most women have! I don't mind a LITTLE bit of mushiness....every now and again. On a similar vein, I also don't want to get 10 texts/phonecalls a day, just to say hi. Get a life!

    Don't think it's you just not having a Gene at all.

    The vast majority of women I have known feel like you, but are just not honest enough to say it publicly.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,327 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    I swear to God, you'll have us all in the madhouse.
    Where we belong. :D
    m@cc@ wrote: »
    She says she still loves me but that our lives are going in different paths. I don't know if the 'loves' part makes it better or worse. I can't walk away from her no matter how hard I try. (Actually this should probably be PI, but **** it :D)
    The older I've gotten the more shades of grey I see in some areas and the more black and white I see in others. If someone says they love you, great. Kudos indeed. If they say they love you... but... then that tells me one of two things. They either dont love you as much as they say(or like to think) or they're trying to mould you to fit their lives. BS for you either way. Sod that. My question to that? Who are you meeting? Who are you sharing things with? Who are you boning? If its not me, anything you tell me is at best self delusion, at worst a lie. "Its not you, its me/I'm not sure about this/we're going in diff directions/etc" for me = BS. Move on, make your own life and leave them to make up whatever mind they have. If they want you, they'll make it known to you with little vagueness. If I am fond of someone they know it. Never mind loving someone. Anything else is flim flam and ballsology of the highest order. My 3 cents anyway.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Pyr0


    K-9 wrote: »
    This would be the way I would feel about it. Don't know if I ever could go back to a serious long termer again though.

    Once bitten, twice shy and all that.

    I'd like to think that myself but I know sometime down the line there will be someone I'll trust with my heart again and I'll go for it. It's all part of living your life really ! Even if it hurts like a bitch sometimes ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Where we belong. :D

    The older I've gotten the more shades of grey I see in some areas and the more black and white I see in others. If someone says they love you, great. Kudos indeed. If they say they love you... but... then that tells me one of two things. They either dont love you as much as they say(or like to think) or they're trying to mould you to fit their lives. BS for you either way. Sod that. My question to that? Who are you meeting? Who are you sharing things with? Who are you boning? If its not me, anything you tell me is at best self delusion, at worst a lie. "Its not you, its me/I'm not sure about this/we're going in diff directions/etc" for me = BS. Move on, make your own life and leave them to make up whatever mind they have. If they want you, they'll make it known to you with little vagueness. If I am fond of someone they know it. Never mind loving someone. Anything else is flim flam and ballsology of the highest order. My 3 cents anyway.

    i would agree with this, although inexperienced. Magazines and books have shagged all expectations.
    I certainly believe in lust, but does love not just turn into dependency?


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