What is your opinion on the United Kingdom?

[BrianL]

By choice or by circumstance?

I don't know that I'd call it a "choice" but it just doesn't really work out for me - in the very few chances I've even had at a relationship.

 

[Kittyblue]

Very much in a relationship ❤

 

[dclpluto]

Married 26 years

 

[disneychrista]

I don't know that I'd call it a "choice" but it just doesn't really work out for me - in the very few chances I've even had at a relationship.

To me choice is you don't want a relationship. Circumstance means to me you either as you said it doesn't work out or you just don't really meet a potential partners.

 

[BrianL]

To me choice is you don't want a relationship. Circumstance means to me you either as you said it doesn't work out or you just don't really meet a potential partners.

I suppose it would be the latter, but some of it is my fault. I will say that I very much identify with what Agent K said in Men in Black:

J: "It's better to have loved and lost...."
K: Try it.

I would very much like to meet someone I could trust, so I want a relationship - I just don't trust many people.

 

[LSUmiss]

Been together 22 years married for 14 years.

 

[disneychrista]

I suppose it would be the latter, but some of it is my fault....I would very much like to meet someone I could trust, so I want a relationship - I just don't trust many people.

I whole heatedly agree. Except in my case I trusted the wrong ones to begin with and now I can't trust anyone.

 

[BrianL]

I whole heatedly agree. Except in my case I trusted the wrong ones to begin with and now I can't trust anyone.

It was really only once for me, but I learned just how much someone can lie to you and how deeply they can hurt you. Most of the time I think it's not worth it.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Single.

 

[disneychrista]

Most of the time I think it's not worth it.

I feel that way too most of the time. I sometimes think about how much I would like to have someone to share my life with and question my decision.

 

[BrianL]

I feel that way too most of the time. I sometimes think about how much I would like to have someone to share my life with and question my decision.

Don't get me wrong, everyone. I'm not bitter and am generally very happy. I just really don't like what people call "games" when it comes to relationships - that's a pretty high-stakes game!

 

[North of Mouse]

53 years married - 3 children, 4 grands, empty nesters, retirement, and still happily RV'ing.

 

[ohiomom28]

Married, almost 10 years

 

[violina]

Married, 4 years. Together, for 5 years before that.

 

[fla4fun]

Don't get me wrong, everyone. I'm not bitter and am generally very happy. I just really don't like what people call "games" when it comes to relationships - that's a pretty high-stakes game!

I have never understood why people want to lie and play games with people in general, let alone in a relationship that is supposed to be your soft place to fall. Once someone messes with you that way, it’s very hard to trust people again. I lost my ability to trust at 21, and have never gotten it back. The only person on the planet I completely trust is my sister.

 

[BrianL]

I have never understood why people want to lie and play games with people in general, let alone in a relationship that is supposed to be your soft place to fall. Once someone messes with you that way, it’s very hard to trust people again. I lost my ability to trust at 21, and have never gotten it back. The only person on the planet I completely trust is my sister.

Yeah. I am generally a very honest person because I don't see the point in lying, but especially in a relationship - at least if you want it to go anywhere, but I am not one for capricious romances. I had said one thing at the begining that I would be totally honest and I was of course promised that in return. Turns out nearly everything this person said to me was a lie to some degree. It hurt quite a bit.

 

[TippyThomas]

I've never been in a relationship in my life. I am very, very single.

 

[Pooh2]

Married 36 years, together 39 years.

 

[mjkacmom]

Together 32 married 25, known each other for 42.

 

[Boopuff]

Married to my starter hubby for 32 fun-filled years!