'She needs CONSTANT validation': 20+ people confess the real reasons why their single friend is still single

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    Font - r/AskReddit Posted by u/teekzer 14 hours ago What is causing your friend to remain single that you don't have the heart to tell them?
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    Font - Eat YourCheckers 16 hr. ago Brother-in-law, not friend. But he makes the same jokes about and all the time. Like, constantly. Yes, some women like potty- humor, but they usually also want it to be funny. He is also very negative; finds insult or something wrong with any situation. 5.7k Reply Share
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    Font - Rusti3dp 11 hr. ago He really is not as nice of a person as he thinks he is. 5.6k Reply Share
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    Font - o butwhatsmyname. 10 hr. ago edited 9 hr. ago . She is so lovely. So kind, so generous, and so beautiful. But her crippling lack of self esteem is so huge it's visible from space, and her anxiety (and I'm 99% sure her undiagnosed ADHD) means that when she's at all nervous she talks at 100 miles an hour in several directions at once. It's like being handed 8 happy Labrador puppies to try and hold in your arms. I so badly want her to be happy and feel fulfilled but even I find it tiring som
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    Font - Sufficient-Spell9935. 16 hr. ago The people they like aren't real. They are idealized, cartoonish caricatures. Now my friend himself has a lot to offer imo, but he is looking for a person that doesn't exist. Hard to find something that's not there. 4.1k Reply Share
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    Font - Fit_Yogurtcloset_291. 9 hr. ago He lies to himself about almost everything. He lives in fantasy land. He thinks he's in the gym five days a week, eats great, climbs mountains, goes camping, makes loads of money. Reality - pub five days a week, over eats like went on one hike in January, can't hold a job and lives paycheck to paycheck.... If you were to confront him with this reality it wouldn't even get through to him. 4.0k Reply Share
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    Goggles - not-read-gud 16 hr. ago I can smell them. Everyone can smell them 3.4k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Wizard_of_Claus 16 hr. ago It's not his height. It's his obsession with it. 3.3k Reply Share
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    Font - Theunpolitical - 16 hr. ago Her standards are excessively too high. She brings nothing to a relationship. She's a walking contradiction, all of which is why she is single. I think it's great to have standards and high standards but hers is just a checklists of "wants". ✩ 2.4k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - PENT Oh-Cool-Story-Bro. 15 hr. ago I really need to hear what my friends would say about me 2.0k Reply Share
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    Font - Julia_Sugarbaker123. 11 hr. ago Desperation. From laughing way too hard at mediocre jokes to bringing up marriage on the 1st date, she reeks of it. We have all tried talking to her about it to no avail. The sad thing is that if she was just her regular funny, smart, relaxed self then men would be falling over themselves trying to get her number. ↑ 1.7k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - mossadspydolphin. 15 hr. ago She has a long, long way to go in therapy before she'll be able to maintain a healthy long-term relationship. If I did mention it, I'd be "attacking" her and "gaslighting," so I'll let her work on her more pressing mental health issues for now. 1.3k Reply Share
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    Font - Taiyed Tree21. 12 hr. ago They talk WAY too much. Even during texting my friend is sending paragraphs to women he just met. ↑ 1.0k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - SqueakySnapdragon. 9 hr. ago He keeps hanging on to the past and spending all his time hanging out with ex girlfriends who are unavailable, or women who like him but he doesn't romantically like. 883 Reply Share
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    Font - Mysterydumper - 11 hr. ago He is needy and clingy. Also, he moves around a lot and has been in college for the last 15 years. There is a lot going on. ↑ 775 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Educational_Dust_932 - 10 hr. ago I have a friend who constantly attaches herself to the worst men possible, gets treated like trash, and then reaches out to us for rescue. We tell her every time that the men she are seeing are horrible. Nice guys are always labeled as boring, or she finds an excuse not to be interested. "He has dinner with his mother 2-3 times a week. I'm not dating a mommas boy " But the guy who ditched her at a concert twice? He's alright. At this point I'm convinced s
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    Font - Pinkgirl0825 10 hr. ago She's a beautiful girl, like seriously one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in real life, but she needs CONSTANT validation. No man on the planet can give her the validation she requires. 674 Reply Share
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    Font - ApricotWeekly 7946 9 hr. ago She's too needy and clingy and doesn't bring much to the table...impulsive, alcoholic, body image issues... Even guys that are super into her run away after a few dates because of how needy she gets. She realizes it's something she's doing but doesn't understand why. She finally got into a long term relationship with a great guy who was really into her but broke it off recently because she demanded they get engaged asap and would scream and break dishes due to
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    Font - am Eris EternalE 12 hr. ago. edited 3 hr. ago His standards are unrealistic. He's a 4 or 5 on a good day but is only interested in women if they're an 8 or higher. He's also very overweight, but constantly points out women's weight on dating apps and how it's a deal breaker if they look to be anything above a US 5. I didn't realize all of this was to such an extreme until myself and the rest of his friend's wives sat down and went through dating profiles of different women who liked his p
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    Font - mods_ma 12 hr. ago Very on off hygiene. Some days they smell normal and I'm assuming that's their shower day but then the smell just gets worst and worst until they shower daily for 2-3 days and then it's just a repeating cycle. He's had multiple partners give him the pet name stinky...I guess it was cute for them until it wasn't. 549 Reply Share
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    Smile - gULTwPncqlyHIH. Overly loud and party boyish at age 45 498 15 hr. ago Reply Share
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    Font - Opinecone 16 hr. ago edited 16 hr. ago Her life revolves around helping her parents, whom she still lives with and who do not need her help. Her hobbies include that and obsessing over her very ordinary cats. Mostly hangs out with her mother's friends. If I were a guy, I'd be scared to become part of her life. 463 Reply Share
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    Gesture - AyellowMuzic 16 hr. ago i'm the "single" friend 429 ♡ Reply Share
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    Font - weisp 11 hr. ago She thinks she is the best catch (education, height, natural beauty, job and her own money) however there is nothing attractive about her and her personality: she doesn't dress up/ spend on herself, talks highly about herself and her career, judges others (not just men but her own friends) on what they earn or how much money they have 416 Reply Share
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    Font - o Resident-Worry-2403. 9 hr. ago Lack of interests. He just is a boring person. He does some things that he started to so when he was a kid. But just because it is something regular. Like playing tennis with his dad once a week. There is no development and you cannot get him to do anything he's not used to. Really anything. He has no stories to tell and basically no life. There is no way to connect to him and I am losing connection just because we cannot exchange about new things and we t

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