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Single and Playing The Field...

One of the best parts about being single, and single for an extended amount of time, is having the time to actually get to know other people. Not just getting to know other people in a sense of.. "So and so goes to Missouri Western...", but getting to know them in a sense where I can learn their habits, the things that may love and/or hate, and possibly what they may be looking for in a mate. I think that what we fail to realize when it comes to being single is that we are SINGLE and all SINGLE entails, lol. Let me explain, we present ourselves to this new person as a single individual interested in getting to know them and possibly having hopes of going somewhere with them. Then, we start hanging around them more and communicating with them at a deeper and more personal level to the point where we steer away from that single title and view them in a way that is "I am yours and you are mine." Keep in mind, we are BOTH still single... and we mess up where we ruin a situation that may be going well by attaching "relationship responsibilities" to a situation where NO RELATIONSHIP exists. When I look back on some of my failed situations, they have failed based on some of the actions that have occurred between us two, but in addition to that, we attached responsibilities to the union that did not have to be responsibilities in the first place. So, for example, one guy I used to talk to always used to tell me that I was his and he was mine, but there was no title attached and he expected me to act as if I were in a relationship, but in actuality, I was single and had never changed from being single. He attached these expectations that he would place on a girlfriend on me and assumed that would work simply because he said so. It does not work that way. So, in my eyes, what he was saying was definitely a load of crap and something that he was just saying just to justify him actually going out messing with other people, while keeping me "under wraps". Which, him messing with other people would have been fine anyway because he was not mine. What I struggled with through the dating process is coming across men that expected me to be theirs, but to an extent. To be their "lowkey girlfriend" with the expectations that they created, but single when it comes to them doing what they wanted to do. It does NOT work that way, therefore, I started playing the field. I got cursed out a few times, yelled at a few times, you know.... emotional sessions sometimes from some of these men because I started acting like a SINGLE WOMAN, which was what I was the whole damn time. I got calls filled with a screaming man on the other end because I went out on a date with him last week, but a date with another guy two weeks later.. but I just could not understand WHY it mattered if he was able to do the same thing and we were BOTH single. If men can play the field and date around to get to know new people, then why cant women do it without appearing to be easy. Me going out on different dates and interacting with different people was me taking the time to figure out what type of man and situation did I really want. The whole single thing is kind of tricky, but.... I'm making do. I simply just feel like, if you're going to want to appear to be single to the public, but try to wife a girl up in private. I'll pass on you and you need to do some type of evaluation on yourself because that situation just is not right and it makes no sense. If you want a woman, put her in a relationship... but if you simply just want to mess around, be honest about it and do just that. Not... "I entertain other girls, but they don't mean anything.... but you better not be messing around with other people" type of thing, because if you come at me like that and try to place me in that type of situation, you have lost your damn mind. There is nothing wrong with being single and messing with different people is you have common sense about it. I can entertain one guy at dinner because he makes me laugh and another next week at the skating rink because the last one did something to piss me off. This is simply just .... being single.
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