Sarah Hatter believes that “Single is the new Married.” In fact, a forthcoming article penned by this much-adored blogger pontificates this hypothesis in much more detail than I can muster, so you’ll just have to wait and read it. Still, I am apt to agree with her, possibly because a) I am single and b) I like the concept that single is now being accepted into society the way that being married always has. However, not everyone shares this view.
Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times believes the opposite – that married is normal and anyone who finds themselves single over age 30 is not. This has enraged fellow bloggers enough to write various posts on their site condemning Mr. Steinberg for his idiocy. As such, I’ll let their sentiments (as well as my roommate’s, who is not only one of the funniest humans I’ve ever met but has a way with words that is enviable by even me:
“this guy is obviously an idiot. While he makes valid points that most would not argue, he is also assuming (based on a prior article, I believe), that all/most single people are happy. Dude, I’m the poster child for clinical depression. F him. I hope his wife is blowing some younger guy as we speak. The reason he’s so pro marriage is because he looks like a tool who couldn’t get any when he was single, so he latched on to some fat chic named Heather who has bangs….here’s a pic of the dude:
He looks like he’s tons of fun in the sack….)
represent my own thoughts. I’d love to hear yours.
In the meantime, I’ll be trying to think of something amusing/interesting/thought-provoking to write. I trust you’ll be able to amuse yourself in my absence.
UPDATE! I thought of something interesting to say – thanks to helen jane. (You can all now take a collective sigh of relief.)
As of today, 2:14PM EST, I have visited the following states in red.
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And the following countries.
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Looks like a road trip should be in my future. (Or perhaps a weekend of debauchery in Cancun.) Who’s with me?
AubreySabala.com 
Nearly all of my local friends are married. My roommates are both in pretty solid relationships, and one of them is all-but-engaged to his woman. I did the whole Best Man routine twice in ’03.
The only person who seems to be happy with my current state of singleness is … me. Everyone wants me to pick up some cheap floozy, I guess, but me? I’m peachy keen with being single. I have no one to bitch and complain that I’m going to New Jersey for business in a couple weeks, especially since I’m driving and tacking a couple days on either side and calling it work when it’s really a vacation. A serious relationship or a marriage would have me flying so I could get back home to her tout suite.
Mind you, I do want to be married. I think marriage is a wonderful institution [if you want to spend the rest of your life in an institution]. But right now, I am totally cool being a single guy, because I can up and do and not worry about anyone but me.
there are a lot of guys who if they didn’t have wives would be a more complete mess then they are now
they know this and thank god everyday that they found their second mother to help them through life
those same guys can’t understand how everyone else can function without being married b/c they assume that we live the same shallow life they did – thus his idiotic belief that b/c you are single, you have nothing real in your life
i bet you a million bucks when he was single he had a few guy friends who weren’t very good friends and absolutely no women friends at all and he thinks that is how it is for everyone…
he has no concept that you can have friends who are like your family and you all share real moments in life all of the time…and yes sometimes they happen at 4 in the morning on a saturday night, but they still kick ass
and to be mean, he looks like the original one minute man to me…
All I know is most married couples will proclaim how happy they are; right up to the day they file for divorce and they will begin to confess what a horrible situation they were in and how much happier they will be to be single again or to find that one special person for them.
All I know is that neither one of us would be happy being married if we hadn’t been happy single.
Ah…helenjane said it all. In one sentence, no less.
Aubrey! What’s up? You just popped into my head for some reason and I remembered your URL..great blog; it will be come new required reading for me 🙂 Hope all is well–I’m still at the Red Cross in D.C…
Hi Aubrey, stumbled on your site (ouch) after doing a search for Trish. Pretty cool! As for being single, I have no idea what that concept entails since Judy and I celebrated our 32nd just yesterday! Don’t worry, Mr. Right will walk into your life in due time! Same holds for Trish…..no way you two will end up as spinsters…..worry not. John Dill, Westlake, Oh
“Don’t worry, Mr. Right will walk into your life in due time!”
Or, perhaps he will blog into it.