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" 1. You can take as long as you want to get ready for something without having a guy in the next room yelling the time at you. Because that special skin-tightening peppermint jojoba facial mask takes 45 minutes, and there is no way you&amp;#039;re taking it off even one minute early. This shit was expensive. 2. You don&amp;#039;t have to pretend to laugh at unfunny jokes or be secretly embarrassed about something he wears. There is not another human being that people can define and/or judge you by. 3. You don&amp;#039;t have to hang out with his crappy friends. Like his dickish high school crew who&amp;#039;s obsessed with The Game.  Or that girl Amanda who always gives you the stinkeye when you&amp;#039;re around. Hop off my dick please, Amanda. 4. The fizzy anticipation of going out on a Friday night and possibly meeting a great guy. Like a Sodastream for your heart! 5. You have time to hang out with your friends. And none of them complain they never see you anymore. Hello, brunch. 6. You don&amp;#039;t feel obligated to return the favor vis--vis oral. It&amp;#039;s just some guy. Who cares? 7. You don&amp;#039;t have to share your bed with a 190-pound, 6-foot-3 blanket hog. Unless you want to. Otherwise, totally fair to kick the dude out. 8. You can make out with anyone you want. Any time you want. 9. You never worry that you&amp;#039;re settling. Or missing the chance to sow your wild oats while you can. Check OUT these oats.  10. No worrying about the constant problem known as Buying Men Presents. Eventually you get sick of the rotation of 1. A nice tie. 2. Boxers. 3. That ESPN oral history. 11. Not having to pretend you like a shitty present. My best friend&amp;#039;s ex-boyfriend once gave her a necklace made out of a fork. 12. No awkward dinners with your S.O.&amp;#039;s family. You know, like how you have a glass of wine or two and then make an inappropriate joke and his mom looks at you like you just jumped on the table, pulled your boobs out and started doing that bawdy Titanic&amp;amp;gt; steerage Foot-Stomping Dance of the Poor. 13. You can keep your home at whatever temperature your heart desires. 14. You don&amp;#039;t have to go anywhere near Star Wars, The Hobbit, Nascar, or any other typically male-oriented thing. Every time a woman who does not like The Hobbit says &amp;quot;OMG I love The Hobbit!&amp;quot; in order to exhibit her Coolness, a fairy dies. 15. Not shaving. Forever. 16. Telling your friends retrospectively hilarious stories from your dates. If you like entertaining your whole dinner table with spectacularly awful tales of your last few OK Cupid dates. May as well get something out of it.  17. You can cook whatever you want for dinner. Avocado toast, sauteed kale and lavender lemonade it is. Observing Gwyneth&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;only things that swim or walk on two legs&amp;quot; diet would be harder if a dude was hanging around, craving steak or whatever. 18. Having all the closet space to yourself. 19. Not unknowingly being one of those joined-at-the-hip couples who irritates everybody.  20. Sex is never routine. When you do it, it&amp;#039;s because you want to, not because &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s Wednesday night, five minutes before Kimmel starts.&amp;quot; 21. You can binge-watch an entire season of a show on Netflix with no guilt about your significant other falling behind. House of Cards season 2 waits for no man. 22. You can engage in what Sex and the City refers to as Secret Single Behavior. Like taking your pants off, keeping your bra and shirt on, eating black sesame crackers and reading Style-Like-U. Not that I do this. Every night. At 7:30. 23. You can watch Real Housewives or The Bachelor without being judged. And invite your friends over for white wine viewing parties and get hammered. 24. Pizza farts. Anytime and anywhere you please. 25. On the weekend you can wake up whenever.  26. You never have to fight him for the TV. No Nintendo unless you&amp;#039;re the gamer. 27. Keep whatever kind of booze in the house that you want. If you&amp;#039;re a vodka girl, go for it. No need to stock any amber liquor just because he wants to drink it straight and pretend he&amp;#039;s Hemingway or whatever.  28. No need to do anyone&amp;#039;s laundry other than your own. No skidmarked Family Guy boxers please thank you. 29. You can hook up with a super-hot dumb guy and enjoy it for what it is.   30. You have control of your own mess, and it is probably not literally garbage. A heap of your clothes on the floor is better than discarded Taco Bell wrappers and ephemera everywhere. 31. You can wear an Amy Adams-in-American Hustle deep-V neck with no bra out and there&amp;#039;s no boyfriend to stop you.  32. And you can stay out as late as you want. Without having to check in with anyone. 33. Knowing Beyonc\u00E9 wrote &amp;quot;Single Ladies&amp;quot; for you. The greatest present of all. We are all wearing Sasha Fierce metal gloves on the inside.      Related: 10 Things You Should Never Say To A Single Twentysomething 21 Problems Only Single Women Understand Follow Anna on Twitter.   Photo Credit: Universal/Everett "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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