Being single has become a bit more popular these days. The proof is in the single celebrities and more people deciding that they just want to date instead of trying to mate. So perhaps you’re just better off being yourself and never falling in love.

Love is a pain, after all, right?

Here are some tips to make sure you’re not going to fall in love anytime soon:

• Don’t try to meet anyone – If you can’t meet the love of your life, you’ll never fall in love, after all. Makes sense, right?
• Don’t give any of your dates a second chance – If they screw up right once, they’re out of your life.
• Don’t listen to advice from your friends – Even though they might be completely honest, they’re not going to help you find someone new anyway.
• Don’t keep parts of your life secret – If you’re out on a date, air out all of your dirty laundry – and your deep dark secrets.
• Don’t listen to a word they say – Since they’re not going to be a partner for you, why bother listening to what they say?

Choosing to stay single is empowering and something you can start right now. Just follow this advice and you will certainly not get asked on a date again. Whew.

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The single life is something we mock. We talk about how horrible it is to celebrate holidays on our own, how terrible it is to walk into a party without a date, and how awful it feels when our families ask us (once again) if we’re ever going to find the right person.

But maybe those already in couples don’t understand.

Being single is an exciting time, a time in which we have more choices, more independence, and perhaps even more fun than when we’re in a couple. We get to learn about ourselves, who we are and what we truly enjoy. This is a time we all should embrace, rather than a time to try to avoid.

Instead of making a New Year’s resolution to find your true love, maybe it’s time to fall in love with your single life first. Not only is it going to help you enjoy the moments you experience now, but you’re also going to be able to embrace that future partner with the confidence of knowing who you really are.

When we simply focus on finding someone else, we can forget to think about what we like, what we want, and who we are. And that’s when we end up in relationships that are unbalanced and just wrong for our needs.

For today, be okay with being single. Be okay with being by yourself. After all, you do have options and you do have a life outside of dating. Don’t you?

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Being single is easy; dating is hard. Even with the emergence of online dating, it seems that more people than ever are single and staying that way. This creates the quandary of whether online dating is not as effective as it’s thought to be or if the daters are taking their real life behaviors and are bringing them online.

When you’re out at a bar, you tend to behave a certain way in order to attract those that you want to date or get to know better. If you haven’t been successful in this dating scene, however, you might find that your behaviors are actually more subtle than you think – and the other person just isn’t getting the hint.

To help with this problem, you decide to try online dating, thinking that it will help you overcome your shyness and your inability to talk to others. What you might want to realize is that online dating can still allow you to act the way that you did out in the ‘real’ world, so you’re still single and wondering why.

Dating experts believe that many singles are still single because they’re not taking risks or being as persistent as they need to be. With all of the information we’re bombarded with each day, those that we’re attracted to might not realize that we’re hitting on them. You need to be bold no matter where you are when you’re trying to attract a date.

When you’re online, you need to have a profile that’s fun and exciting and really talks about who you are and what makes you special. When you’re out in that bar, you need to create a way for people to notice you – even if it’s simply a bright color that you’re wearing.

Taking a risk to be noticed is the way to attract more dates than you ever thought possible. Try it.

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