{"id":12023,"date":"2015-09-15T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=12023"},"modified":"2017-07-25T13:33:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T18:33:32","slug":"dear-gabby-single-and-not-ready-to-mingle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2015\/09\/15\/dear-gabby-single-and-not-ready-to-mingle\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Gabby: Single and not ready to mingle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Processed<\/a>So I am 23 and all of my friends are in relationships, but I am the only one in the group who isn\u2019t dating anyone. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t want a relationship, but I am so busy in my personal life that I am not sure if I\u2019d have time to even have a boyfriend. However, I feel really pressured from my friends and family because I\u2019m not in a relationship. At first, I just overlooked their opinions, but I am starting to feel like maybe I am a failure or something. Do you think it\u2019s bad that I am not in a relationship?<\/p>\n

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Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Mate-less<\/p>\n

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Dear Mate-less,<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t ever feel the need to change because of someone\u2019s opinion. I think you should be living your life the way you want. If it works for you, then that\u2019s all that matters. It\u2019s always a tough situation because even though we try to ignore people\u2019s opinions, their words still creep into our minds. Before you know it, their opinions start to make us doubt ourselves, and then we start altering ourselves according to their ideas of us.<\/p>\n

If you are content with who you are, then don\u2019t feel like you need to change. You know what is best for you. If you force a relationship, it just won\u2019t work, simple as that. You should be in a relationship only if you want to, and if you actually have feelings for a person. Don\u2019t just date someone because you feel like you have to or you\u2019re getting \u201ctoo old.\u201d Everyone has different priorities. Nothing is wrong with focusing on your career or schooling, instead of finding the potential one and only. There is no time limit. I guarantee that when you feel like you\u2019re ready, then the right person will come along\u2014you wont have to force it or find a random person to call as your boyfriend.<\/p>\n

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Be you,<\/p>\n

Gabby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I am 23 and all of my friends are in relationships, but I am the only one in the group who isn\u2019t dating anyone. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t want a relationship, but I am so busy in my personal life that I am not sure if I\u2019d have time to even have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[2030],"class_list":["post-12023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-gabrielle-sharp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-37V","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12025,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023\/revisions\/12025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}