I’ll Never Trade My Cat For A Relationship—So Stop Asking

People love to throw me relationship hypotheticals. There’s something about a single woman that others jump to challenge, as if she’s not worthy of her own preferences. It’s another form of blame wielded against single women to demonstrate to them that their own singleness is all their fault because they’ve committed the crime of having standards. We should all be dating pond algae, really, how dare we be so picky? Hypothetical-flingers are looking to debunk whatever dealbreakers I have left like they’re earning a very disconcerting badge of honor. As if they win a prize for showing me that the things I want are the exact things I can’t...

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