Single and It’s complicated

I’ve had two friends change their status from Single to “In a relationship and it’s complicated.” Isn’t that a given. All relationships are complicated. Its like telling people don’t eat yellow snow. By now we should all know that relationships are complicated. If they weren't 50% of all marriages wouldn't end in divorce. People are complex and when you try to meld two lives it's a lot like trying to blend oil and water. On the other hand I never realized how complicated being single was. There are so many rules unwritten rules.

1. Don't infringe on other girls territory or you will start a catfight. 
2. Prior to being single I never texted. Now texting is the thing to do and there are so many rules. Don't respond to texts too quickly because then you seem desperate 
3. Don't text too often because that is annoying. 
4. Be careful when sending texts because it's easy to accidentally send it to the wrong person.
5. Then there are the kissing rules. It’s ok for a guy to kiss multiple girls, but guys won’t take you serious if you kiss multiple guys. So now I have to resist kissing the guy who has his face in mine if I want to ever be more then just his kissing buddy.  
6. Then there is the clothing issue. There is a very fine line between dress sexy, but not slutty.  You will get a guy's attention with slutty, but just like kissing if you want to be the girl they take home to mom there is a fine line. He doesn't want a prude, but he also doesn't want a slut. 
7. Also how do you know if he is really busy or just not interested in you.  This is a hard one because I'm very busy, so when I say I'm busy that day I'm really busy. I actually had a guy tell me that he's never been turned down for so many dates and continued to pursue a girl. I thought that was quite strange. Apparently he has been told by girls in the past that they are busy when they aren't interested. That's not very nice. That gives us truly busy girls a bad rap.  So, now I kind of wonder if those guys that I've been trying to get together with say they are busy are really busy or are they just not interested in me.

With everyday I learn new rules to the dating game it just gets more and more complicated. Where is a handbook when I need one. When I was in Human Resources I used to write handbooks.  Back then I was on top, the creator of rules. Now I'm just one of the little fishes in the sea who seems to be swimming upstream a lot of the time.  I have managed to start a cat fight, been told by a guy that I'm annoying because I text too much, became that kissing buddy instead of the intended girlfriend, and am probably pursuing a guy that has no interest in me.  Let's just see how many more times I can make a fool of myself and stick my foot in my mouth?

Maybe I should switch my status to it’s complicated. 

I have come to realize that life is complicated no matter what your relationship status is.  When you are single you have multiple complicated relationships and when you are in a committed relationship all that complicatedness and frustration is centered around a single person.  There is no escaping the appendix of "it's complicated."