We also note with concern that one man in Rome can tell you what to do without thinking about it.

We read our Bibles and interpret it as best as we and our pastors can. Sometimes the pastor is wrong: Fred Phelps is wrong to go around hating gays because "anyone who hates his brother is a murderer and we know no murderer has eternal life" I John 3:15

You must know when the religious leader is wrong, to correct him. And not to give one person unlimited authority to interpret and maybe add to the Bible.

My problem is my dad bugging me not to date! LoL

If a woman wants to bug me to date her she's welcome

Always look to parents for some of the most blind praise in the world... ><

Yet they always hate it when your the night owl...

Oddly enough, the only person that's been bugging me to 'date' was my neighbour in the locker room!

I know this is a total aside, but the thinking is that it's still circumventing God's will, by preventing the reproductive system from working as intended.

Seeing as my priest hardly batted an eye when I told him I was using BC other than NFP, though, I'm not too worried about it.

My dads sisters bug me about boyfriends.

It's not a recent phenomenon!  I used to get bugged by everybody, not only family, but classmates, etc, as to did I have a boyfriend, if I didn't why not, was I gay, etc. etc.  If I said I just had "no interest" then it was apparently considered odd.

It got so bad amongst girls at high school, in particular, that in self-defence I decided to develop what appeared to be an obsession with an actor (Henry Winkler, aka "The Fonze") to trot out whenever anybody wouldn't leave me alone about dating, and say that I totally loved him, and unless I could marry him, I'd marry nobody.  Which apparently was acceptable, as there were a number of girls who employed this strategy with film actors or sportstars.  Although I think in their case it was not so much protective camouflage as a true obsession.  (As an example, one of my sisters is a true Bon Jovie groupie, and follows the singer around Australia whenever he tours here.)

It was a relief to finally find a man who accepted and valued me for who I am; I was so impressed with that I married him!

Alison

I'm in my thirties and I've never had a relationship.

people are rarely surprised to find out i'm on my own. i've been told by numerous gay men that they wish i was gay though. i do too.

I say why not give it a go. To be honest, if a hot woman hit on me, I'd give it consideration.

being gay? i wish i could. unfortunately i just don't find many men attractive, certainly not any that have approached me. and i have actually... been intimate, shall we say, with a couple of men in the past (separate incidents, still, have fun with that mental image!), and i didn't really enjoy it, without going into detail. not many men know their sexuality having tried both haha.

I haven't had a relationship either because the last one I was in didn't feel so real.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being selective or waiting for the right time.  You don't want to be in a relationship that isn't right for you.  Its tough though, the waiting and the unknown.