While I do not begrudge other people’s right to choose “it’s complicated”, I have several questions about it. I would never have used it until couple months ago when Facebook required detailed information about your relationship status.
Legal documents only have these relationship status options:
Married
Single (Never Married)
Widow
Divorced
Separated
While online social networking community like Friendster and Facebook have these in addition:
In a Relationship
In an Open Relationship
Engaged
Domestic Partner
It’s complicated
I have no idea what is “In an Open Relationship” but I have a vague idea of an “It’s Complicated”, and if they are trying to invent more relationship status, they should include long distance relationship in there too.
I long for the days when it was easy to define one’s life. If you are not with somebody, automatically you’re single. If you’re with someone, you’re either in a relationship of married.
My generation has come up with so many neither here nor there concepts like MU (mutual understanding, close to friends with benefits?); dating friends; meantime girl or boy and a whole lot of things that escapes me at the moment.
Isn’t this world confused enough without these “innovations”? Isn’t it time to bite the bullet and stop playing games? Why does it have to be so complicated?
24 Comments
Open Relationship: those who are afraid of commitment, but also don’t want to be alone. partly complicated, each couple makes up their rules. some date others, some sleep with others, and many get jealous, and probably demand an ultimatum in the end lol
Shawie,
Yeah I’ve heard of that. I think we are just straight when in comes to relationships, they are kinda hmmmm OPEN? I’d rather us be naive than like them 😛 what you think?
Have an awesome Sunday too 🙂
Did you know that California just passed the law of GAY marriages? How is that? Here, if you say gay that means both the gay guy and lesbians… yeah, very different, eh? If you say partner, that means you’re in a gay relationship…hmmmm, what do you think? Filipinos are naive, lols!
have a great Sunday!
Yuck Pie, yeah that’s inviting disaster alright and it’s so disrespectful I think. Why stay in the same house, why not get annulment first. Oh well, their preference I guess but yuck. Showbiz people sometimes are bad examples.
Yeah Sphinx this generation likes to complicate the uncomplicated, like they are finding ways to get worked up or worry some more.
At my age, I couldn’t help saying that the new generation complicates things, even relationships. In my time, it’s simply single, married, widow – it’s generally easy to understand.