Friends are all in relationships and keep asking when I’m (M 24) going to find a proper girlfriend but I just don’t want to.

Basically, a lot of my main friend group have gotten into serious relationships and it’s made things a bit awkward when it comes to social gatherings. Im essence, a lot of our nights out now consist of 3 -4 couples… plus me.

It often leads to this really patronising talk from them about “how has a good guy like me not found someone” and constantly wanting to set me up with friends or their co-workers. I’ve mentioned before that I’m just not really interested in the idea of a relationship at the moment but they’re very persistent in trying to get me to at least go on dates. It’s very annoying because I feel like they’re more doing it to satisfy themselves and make social stuff easier then to actually help me. Not that I even asked for help anyway.

I’ve also just left out the fact that I’m very very bitter about relationships generally at the moment and I just want to work on myself a bit before I go back into dating. Its just I also really don’t like how uncomfortable I feel in my friend group now.

My basic question is really just how do I stop them having this conversation with me without coming off like an asshole? And secondly, where would the best place to go to find other single people to befriend because the whole being surrounded by couples thing is starting to become infuriating. Ik this post is a bit ranty but any help would be appreciated.

TL;DR: my friends are all settled into their relationships and constantly want to set me up and I don’t wanna seem like an asshole when I tell them I’d rather do anything else then be in a relationship right now.

Submitted October 05, 2021 at 07:13PM by Noba151515 https://ift.tt/3BhrxU7