so many couples have terrible manners. ya i know it's the norm, espeically in straight world, but it just stinks to hang out with them. it is the rare exception for a couple to be good at socializing as a unit. And because they're so bad at it, they follow the traditions of their forefathers and start to isolate themselves until they only socialize with other couples the worst part is the intense gender and/or relationship norms. it's the lazy way for one couple to relate to the other, but it turns them into caricatures of themselves. of course, the alternative is to hang out as a group of individuals but if that happened then i wouldn't be dealing with the nonsense that motivates this post
#oh it annoys me when they start to speak for each other instead of both participating as individuals in the group conversation#straight couples are so terrible when they form a critical mass - they either fracture into gendered groups#or have group conversations led by either the men or the women separately#the whole thing smacks of gender#and i probably shouldn't have stayed so long at that BBQ#when i attend a thing with a partner i do not socialize as a couple - nope no never
