your romantic status

The museum of relationship stuff got me thinking- are sports journalists really that much unluckier in love or is that a myth? Not that this poll would answer that question, but I thought it'd be interesting, anyway.

Sorry so many options, but I wanted to account for nuance.

 

The masturbation one is really funny. Nice work. That would be asexual then, wouldn't it?

 

I voted in a relationship and very happy, because, dammit, I am. We fight, but who doesn't?

That said, you'd best find a girl who's super cool and who works in a compatible field, or this business will chew up any romantic ideas you've got. And given where many in this biz seem to be starting from, those two things can be insurmountable.

Now, what I want to know is, how do people is this biz save up enough money to buy a ring and get married?

 

Pretty much de facto asexual, yup. Hope that isn't one of the leading responses.

 

Marry a nurse. They have even crazier hours and make more money than we do.

 

I tried that and it didn't end well.

As far as buying a ring, zeke, just don't buy one that is insanely expensive. Surely she understands you don't make a lot of coin and that it is about what the ring means, not how big it is.

 

Single and ain't gotten as much as a sniff of it in 18 months.

 

Oh, and I voted casually dating and having fun.

 

Ring = 15 months, no interest. The only way possible for me.

In a very happy relationship. Will be engaged in less than two months.

 

A quick Googling will tell you where I work/who I am, but I decided last February to go the 8-5 route. It's certainly helped in this aspect, and it's paid off -- I voted in a relationship with only minor troubles -- but you'll never guess what happened on the road to bliss: I miss deadlines, the bad pay and the stupid co-workers.

For everyone who says they long to get out of sports, know that that's going to be a part of it.

 

Even the choices with lonesome and self-loathing are too positive for my situation.

But to address something related to Zeke's point, I've been single for five years and I have absolutely no idea, when working nights and weekend with the bulk of your spare time between midnight and 5 a.m., where in the hell you're supposed to meet people. And I'm not interested in the bar scene.

 

If you wait until you have enough money, you'll be single all your life.

I know I'm in the female minority, but the diamond wasn't important, it's the relationship. (Confession time, I don't even wear my engagement ring, I wear a birthstone ring Mr. Rosie bought me a few years ago.)

Just don't go broke buying a ring. A piece of jewelry should not put you in the poor house.