Coping With Smug Marrieds
December 5, 2005 by NML
It’s tough enough to deal with Smug Marrieds as a Singletons. They’re always trying to fix you up with someone so that you’ll be just as happy as them.Well dealing with Smug Marrieds is just as bad, or maybe worse when you’re married and not so smug. I have some friends who are such Smug Marrieds that I have a hard time understanding how they functioned without each other, or without being married, for as long as they did.
Instead of complaining about it any longer, I have just learned how to cope and I hope these skills will help you too…whether you’re married or a Singleton.
When you enter a situation with the Smug Marrieds, know what you’re getting into. Nod a lot and grin madly, listening is not necessary.
If you’re not familiar with the posh venues and important people, either pretend that you are or act as though you’re hanging on every word the Smug Marrieds are saying. They won’t know the difference.
Take what they say very lightly…they mean no harm…they know not what they’re saying or doing. They’re so caught up in they’re married little world they find it hard, if not impossible, to maintain a normal attitude.
And if all else fails…find ways to avoid them at all costs, tell them to sod off, or find a new group of people.
I have tried all of these with great success. My poor friends have been none the wiser, which is fine. I can’t change them, nor do I wish to. Too bad they don’t feel the same. Humph!
Eyes lives in a little town she likes to refer to as Posh Town where the air is sweet, the silicone is plenty, and the children are all gifted. Her tattoos, love for women as well as men, and cursing like the sailor her dad once was, put her just on the outside of fitting in…and that’s just the way she likes it. Nothing to hide, unless you choose to be blind.
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Well spoken & well said; the last time I was out w/my married friends I let everything enter one ear and exit out of the other; a strawberry daquiri also helps, lol!
i wish my married friends with kids and happiness would take the time to bother to fix me up with single friends. most of them forget that i exist at all…
I always give the smug marrieds kids a copy of Princess Bubble. Princess Bubble is happy being single and learns true happines comes from within. They may or may not get the message I am sending the parents by my gift-but I feel better! I also know if the kids end up single like me, then they would have had a good roles-Aunt Jane and Princess Bubble.