Let's be real, dating is just plain hard. You've got to find someone you're attracted to, whose personality clicks with your own, whose dreams are decently alignable with yours, AND someone who won't annoy the life out of you day in and day out should you potentially get married. It's a pretty difficult feat to achieve. Singleness is far easier, and though it gets lonely, you don't have to share pizza with anyone. I kind of like that.

I've been single more often than I haven't been, and at 22, I've grown comfortable with my own company. Despite that, I've been told that I should force myself to go out on dates on occasion, because apparently, "you never know when you're going to meet the person who is your other half."

But, whatever.

Anyway, here are the struggles of being single and trying to date, as told by Pride & Prejudice gifs. Enjoy.

Struggle Number 1

When you force yourself to go on a date and it's actually going well and the guy has five stars in your book, and then he turns around at the end of the night and asks you to stay at his place (as if he's expectant of sex on the FIRST DATE?!?!?!?!)

Bye, Felicia.

Struggle Number 2

When your friend is trying to set you up, and she's like: "I have this friend who is perfect for you! Let me show you his Facebook. He's an engineer and he owns his own house. He's also single!"

*Friend shows you a picture of the guy* ... *Guy is not cute at all*

"Oh...he seems so...nice..."

Struggle Number 3

When you start to think a guy is cute, but then you overhear him talking about his "type of woman" with his friends and he's like "she's gotta have a recession-proof degree, be a college athlete, 35-25-35, no shorter than 5'8" and no taller than 5'10", be a virgin, a Billy Joel fan, and love the Dallas Cowboys:

Struggle Number 4

When you're on the first date and the guy goes for the hand hold, which is so not cool and like a major super intimate gesture and the last person you held hands with was your ex who you loved and why in the WORLD would you want to touch this guy's grimy, sweaty hand and maybe this date was a mistake in the first place?

Struggle Number 5

When you're in class/church/the grocery store and you see a ridiculously beautiful man and you're caught off guard imagining a future that includes having his babies and then he catches you staring awkwardly at him with this weird half-grin on your face as you plan his future:

Struggle Number 6

When your mother starts griping about wanting grandbabies and she makes you feel bad for not playing the field as much as you could and she subtly insinuates that your biological clock is ticking and you're like:

Struggle Number 7

When your friends explain to you the reasons why you're single and several of them include something about you being far too fond of pizza and Netflix and unwilling to go out and "do fun things like normal people do."

Struggle Number 8

When you sit in bed late at night kicking yourself over loving your ex so much that moving on feels impossible sometimes, and maybe that's why you're having no success dating--because you can't get him out of your mind and you FEEL LIKE SUCH A STUPID FOOL FOR FALLING IN LOVE WITH HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE BUT YOU'RE NOT BITTER AT ALL--

Struggle Number 9

When you're, like, super happy alone with your books and your pizza and your Netflix and you are a strong, independent woman who really doesn't need a man:

Lizzie Bennett for the win, y'all. What's the lesson here? Don't waste time on Mr. Collins or Mr. Wickham, because there's someone like Mr. Darcy coming for you. In the meantime, HAVE NO SHAME ABOUT YOUR BOOKS, PIZZA AND NETFLIX. You go, Glen Coco.