It's no secret I'm single.
It's no secret why (at least I think so).
It's also, certainly no secret, that my tolerance for couples is historically low.

I join the ranks of early 20-somethings somewhere between being endlessly bitter and completely elated about my lack of — someone.

Either way, as human beings, we can't avoid people in relationships as much as we wish we could. Nearly everywhere we turn our best friends and casual friends and cousins and siblings are getting into dating. Every time we log onto Facebook we're bombarded with engagement announcements, wedding pictures, a picture collage of the ring and where he proposed and everything that marks the official start to summer wedding season. The real nightmare doesn't end when we wake up, it ends when we finally log off of Facebook.

That being said, with the increase of all these things is the increase of seeing it not just on Facebook, but on every social media platform we have access to and we all know how I feel about that. You literally cannot hide anything from anyone anymore, least of all who you're dating.

Pictures of couples on Instagram clog our feed with a collage of said couple, doing couple-things and usually a heartfelt paragraph long message from the girlfriend about how she's finally met her best friend, she loves him so much and so on and so forth.
I'm here to tell you, reading those posts are down right depressing.

Not for me, and not for the reason you might think.

It's depressing for you.

I see post after post of a girl just pouring her heart out for everyone to see with a picture of her boyfriend by her side, only to know exactly what he's done behind her back; for everyone to know what he's done behind her back. She might even know what he's done behind her back and still she posts. It's so common and it's so sickening. Ladies (and guys too, we know women aren't angels in this situation, but I digress) - please - stop letting your boyfriend off the hook.

I knew a girl, we've all known a girl, who was just someone who was hard to hate. She was in multiple clubs, super pretty, super classy and a near perfect student, and on top of all that, she was actually a likable person (rare to find, I know). Unfortunately, one of the defining facets of who she was was the fact that everyone knew her boyfriend regularly cheated on her. And it was a damn shame, because she was too good to be defined that way, by someone she loved and who claimed to love her back.

So please, stop letting your boyfriend off the hook. The worst that could happen is that he breaks up with you for finally calling him out on his shit.

In my single opinion? You'll be much better off.