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How Not to be a Dick to Your Single Friends in Five Steps
What to do when you have a partner to maintain your friendships.
Being single can be hard, really hard and what doesn’t make it any easier is when your coupled friends stop understanding your single status. They seem to just magically forget that they haven’t always been in a relationship and come out with eye-rolling comments such as “the less you look, the more likely you will find it” and “I just couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be single now” yeah thanks for that…
If you are in a couple cocoon, you may not realise that you do the below behaviours with your single friends so this is a good checklist to keep in mind to maintain your friendships.
(Single girls if you have coupled friends that do any of the below to you maybe casually forward to said coupled friend this article … they probably don’t realise…)
How not to be a dick to your single friends in 5 steps
1. Don’t slot your friends around your partner’s schedule
Have you ever had it when a coupled friend reaches out to make Saturday night plans to find out she is only going out because her boyfriend is? At first, you get all excited thinking of the past crazy nights that you…
