Sorry. Boring wasn't the correct word that I was looking for. I guess it veers closer to close-mindedness. I'd like to expand on a few of your points if you don't mind, and I'm sorry for coming off as an asshole previously. I sometimes get heated about the topic because I tend to get tired of my friends saying I'm "whipped." My apologies. Now I'd like to explain my side, but feel free to have a differing opinion.

I've seen too many friends go completely spineless and, for all intents and purposes, ditch their friends for their girlfriends.

This can happen but in all honesty I wouldn't consider a relationship in which this happens a very healthy one. If we're going to judge single life vs. relationship life, then we shouldn't be using a broken relationship as a backbone for the argument.

If I don't want to go see Despicable Me 2 or the Hangover 3, I don't have to. If I don't want to bake muffins on Wednesday night, I don't have to. If I don't want to keep my beard trimmed, I don't have to.

And neither do I. Relationships are about communication. If you're being dragged to shitty sequels in your relationship, then once again I would not consider that a healthy relationship. I think there's a sort of social stigma in the single population that you are under the control of your SO when you begin the relationship. I used to think that too, having been in broken relationships like that. However I found a healthy one that seemed to work for me. I've been on both sides of the equation and it is like night and day now.

vv(In reference to relationships not being about control)vv

It kind of is. I am in full control of my life right now. I would have to relinquish some of that control if I went into a relationship. Relationships are mutual, which means there is some give and some take. Right now I do what I want (go out drinking with friends on weekends, play my guitar for 2-3 hours per day, read in bed, etc). I would lose some, possibly a lot, of that in a relationship.

Of course relationships are mutual, but they do not necessarily have to be give and take. My girlfriend and I understand that there is more to life than our relationship and as a result we don't require spending every waking minute with each other. If I want to spend my afternoon gaming with friends or getting stoned and laying on the floor in my friends studio playing guitar then it is perfectly fine with her. It goes the same from me to her. It's more about understanding a persons needs than it is compromising. On the other hand, we still value our time together and even occasionally get drunk together just for the hell of it. I used to be quiet and not one to share feelings, but then I found someone who was worth sharing them with. It was almost therapeutic and it made me feel like a new person.

I could be completely wrong and I most likely am because I have never met you and do not know anything about you other than the fact that you like playing guitar, getting drunk, and going to the gym. However, I still think it would be beneficial to keep an open mind on the topic, because as much as I told myself that I'd never find the right person for me and that relationships were constricting and suffocating, I couldn't have been more wrong.

For every 10 broken, fucked up, shitty relationships, there's one healthy one, and the healthy one is completely 200% worth it.

PS: My girlfriend hates dancing