Why Are You Still Single?- A compliment or ignorance?

single and with a heart

“I don’t get it. Why are you still single?”

I hear these words often. Maybe some of you do too.  But they came, more recently, from a guy who I really, really liked. So when the words were followed by, “You’re beautiful, you’re smart, you’re a sweetheart… Is there something you’re hiding under there I don’t know about?” I smiled, I giggled, I swooned, and blushed.

I took it all in as a compliment, because surely, that’s how he intended it to come across, right?

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