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For ALL THE SINGLE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

     As young as daycare age, children are asked Who is your boyfriend? or Do you have a girlfriend yet? While these words seem harmless at the time, this mentality that one must have a boyfriend or girlfriend is usually carried throughout school and rings forever in the ears of young people in high school. To not have a dating relationship with someone brings on feelings and emotions of inadequacy and inferiority. I believe we as a society have set up our young adults to feel this way as we stress the "importance" of a dating relationship because one would not want to be an "Old Maid" all your life.      I remember in high school and college feeling unattractive and unlovable because I didn't have a boyfriend very often. Or if I did date a guy, it turned out to be a disaster, to say the least. Thoughts of changing myself, both inside and out, became in the forefront of my mind. It must be me. What am I doing or not doing that I can't keep a guy? I'm no