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I don’t know if it is a junior year thing but seemingly everyone in my life is starting to date or been with their significant other. So much for the hot boy post-rona season that everyone expected, all the boys are wifed up and staying in on Tuesday nights watching bachelor in paradise or a scary movie that secretly freaks them out, but they can’t look soft in front of the girl they’ve only dated for two months. Me? I’m holding onto my man for dear life because I absolutely despise horror movies, but he loves them.

 

Maybe it was the pandemic that made it easier for us to lock down one person since it was so responsible. Maybe it is the nature of being an upperclassman that has things to do so the energy of dating around is not worth it when you can have one person. Maybe it’s the slow decline of involvement that comes with age where you find your friends, few orgs, and now have time to spend with one other person. Maybe it’s because it is getting cold, and we all are too lazy to turn on our rickety gas heaters in our run-down college houses so we’d rather have someone else laying with us. Maybe it’s because reality is lonely, and we need someone else to fill the void that comes with a real academic year again.

 

Whatever the reason, I am glad. My man and I have been going seven months and I love the idea of double dates with my friends. Nothing makes me happier than seeing my friend’s new girl bonding with my man and knowing that she feels welcome. Having a boyfriend is nice for a lot of reasons, but don’t get one because everyone else has one, that’s weird.