Would you survive if you dont have a boyfriend or a girlfriend?

I think a lot of younger people feel the need to have a boyfriend or girlfriend because they feel it helps identify them. What is sad is the only person that can identify them is themselves and being able to love and feel comfortabe with who they are. Personally I went through those stages. I do have a boyfriend right now but I've been with him for 4 years and he is my best friend. However if for some reason he and I seperate I can tell you that I will most definitely stay single for a very long time. Just because I don't want to rush into anything I'm not ready for but also I would see it as a way to really focus on me and what I want out of life. Having a boyfriend or girlfriend isn't important. Its a plus I suppose but it certainly isn't a must for survival. I think the sooner this concept is understood the more happier people will be.

Hi,there, my friend I'm the same with u and I assume it's normal for me to stay alone for a pretty long time since broke up with ex-gf. Well,time changes,I'm afraid that we are gonna to be expelled from society when we found the people surrounding are all totally different from us,especially on this piont .for real

It wouldn't bother to me at all if I won't have any boyfriend for a longer period of time. As long as my family and my friends are with me, things would work out fine.

A lover is not one of our basic needs so, we can survive without having one. Everybody wants to have someone special to share life with but if the right one does not come, it doesn't make life less meaningful and happy.

Having boyfriend/girlfriend is just part of our growing up. I dont think so its a basic necessity for us to be part of the society. For me in my own point of view I will survive even if I'll be single for rest of my life. I really dont care if I dont have boyfriend, and it wouldn't bother me at all.

With my current boyfriend I don't know how well I'd survive if I didn't have him all of a sudden... but not so much because I need a boyfriend, but because he's my best friend. Otherwise, I've gone long periods of time without a boyfriend and I've had boyfriends before that have made me think I'd be better off single. So yeah, I can survive (and so can most people).

Of course, I would survive even without a boyfriend for a long time. It is not like a basic necessity in life that you won't live without it, right?

When I was a teenager I didnt think I could live with being single. I hated it. All I thought about was how much I wanted a boyfriend. When I was 17 I met the man that I married. I dated him for 2 years before we got married. I've been married for 6 years in which I was miserable. After being in a marriage I hated for that long and now being single I am absoultely loving it. Its hard for me to believe that for so long I was afriad of being alone. I miss a few things about being in a relationship but the feeling of being free to do what I want and not someone around controlling me is enough to make me possibly never want to have another relationship.

Well, I'm still breathing so I must be able to survive being single. Some people enjoy being in relationships and if having someone makes them happy, that's good. I'm perfectly content being single though and right now I have enough to worry about with high tuition fees, exams and family issues that I might not be able to handle a relationship right now. Good excuse right?

I survived the past 23 years without a boyfriend and I think I can survive it more though now I am currently in a relationship. But when time comes that we get separated, I think after a few good talk and advices, I'd be able to stand up and live again.

Back then I survived even if I did not have a boyfriend at times. Having someone is like sharing your time and self with somebody else. It does not bother me at all to have myself for myself and not to think about any other person but yourself. I miss being single but at the same time grateful for having my own family already.

I will survive for sure.I think everyone should have bf or gf.So that they can share your views to each of different gender.But I won't go and ask common be my friend like that.lol!.I just let it happen if it is have to be happened. And if you have one and seeking for another is not bad and also not good.That's all I can tell.Because I don't know to express that.In this world anything can happen nowadays so better be safer and with limited..

yes, i can survive without a boyfriend.,having no boyfriend is not a big issue at all...it doesn't matter if you don't have one,if there is no one loved you in the opposite gender,because you do have your family and friends who loved you more than a boyfriend give.,

I am a single guy too.Just two years ago,My girlfriend and I were broke up.And I felt so lonely in those days.I indulged myself in finding a new girlfriend~!But I failed...I don't konw why.Msybe other girls are not attractive to me.GRILFRIEND had been a part of my life.So when I lost it,I felt lonely,boring and sort og despair.But now I get uesd to being alone.And my life become so fantastic now~

I haven't had a boyfriend in 17 years and don't care to have one again. I like being single and when I did date I was smothered,totally ignored,I needed to find myself, the boyfriend had to find themselves or I justfind another loser which I don't try to find but end up with anyway! I have survived this long without a boyfriend I can continue to!

Even though it would be something nice to have. Its really not mandatory. But every one is different . I really fell hard for a guy once. And when things went rotten. I just stopped doing everything. I thought I couldnt go on. But I dunno. Sometimes I hate the feeling of being lonely. But on the other hand I know I can probly get a boyfriend anytime I want . Its the fact of meeting new people. And going through the same routine.

maybe that's their way to forget their past relationship and just move on, and it will be easier for them that way., I myself do the same, when I broke up with my first bf, in less than a month I have already have a new one, although not so serious..but somehow,that would help me forget my past and I do not want to get stuck up thinking of him it will only ruin my mind.. But I have also known a lot of girl who's contented with no bf at all.

Well, me personally it wouldn't bother me. Being single is fun! You can go out with anyone you want, you can date anyone you want no strings attached and you can spend time wherever you want with no one holding you down. But when I was younger, Almost all my friends had a love interest, and when we hung out together they were all so lovey-dovey. I'd be left out because they can go with their bf's/gf's and it would be good to have a companion once in a while. But I can't get a companion because all of my friends would be with their boyfriends or girlfriends! So i can see why younger kids are so into being attached.

I'm married too, as of last year, so I pretty much have to reflect on my past to answer such a question. The truth is that it was always difficult for me to not have a girlfriend when I was single, but not because being with someone was really always a great thing. I think society just makes us feel so much pressure to be with someone, anyone, just to not feel like a loser. Now that i'm married, I wish that I would have spent more time working on my own life and being a more interesting person rather than just chasing after girls that are not in any way part of my life now. If I had just waited for my wife to come along (because I knew right away when we started dating that I'd marry her) then I probably would have gotten more done with my life early on.

I have had periods in my life where I did have a long time boyfriend and I found that the periods in between without one were a very valuable time for me. It is a time when I found out who I really was without having to adapt to who someone else wanted me to be. My first relationship lasted six years and gave me two beautiful children. During those six years, I was abused in every way possible and when it ended, I spent alot of time rediscovering who I had once been. I am now in a much healthier relationship, but when problems arise and I have to consider a life without him, I know that there are aspects to being alone that I would enjoy - not having to consider someone else's mood, freedom to do what I want to do when I want to do it. On the other hand, it does get lonely sleeping alone! I have already begun cautioning my oldest daughter to put off having a boyfriend as long as she can. I think it is important, for young girls especially, to fully develop their own sense of self before sharing that or adapting it for someone else. Bottom line is that you have to be able to be happy on your own before you can be truly happy with someone else.