OHMYGOD!!! I found out what I am - I'm a "Quirkyalone" [View All]

[LynneSin]

http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/life/2004/02/14quirkyalonesare.html

Quirkyalones are unattached - and loving it


By By JANET K. KEELER
St. Petersburg (Fla.)Times
02/14/2004

Move over, metrosexuals, make room for the quirkyalones.

Metrosexual was last year's "it" label. The word describes a straight man, usually a city guy, who seems stereotypically gay because he spends more time than his fellow Joe on grooming.

So yesterday.

This year, the buzz is about singletons, not the lovelorn kind that Bridget Jones wrote about in her diary, but singles who live full and fun lives. Like Oprah and Cher, or George Clooney and Steve Martin.

Author Sasha Cagen, 30, calls these happy, solitary people "quirkyalones," a term she coined on New Year's Day 2000 to describe herself and some friends who'd rather be single than date for the sake of being in a couple.

The idea spawned an essay in the alternative magazine Utne Reader that caused an avalanche of mail from people who connected with Cagen's quirky view of single life and the pressures to couple up.

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I took the quiz on the right hand side of the article and I got 9/10. I've tried relationships and I sucked at them. I always thought I was "strange" for preferring to be alone as oppose to trying to force a relationship which usually just ends up a nightmare.

I'm a QuirkyAlone and I'm proud of it!! My motto even before this article was "It's better to be alone for all the right reasons than together for all the wrong ones" That should be the theme of us QAs