Why do people think it's alright to comment on your personal life?! or am I being oversensitive?

[EightTimesTable]

I'm in my late twenties and people around me keep asking why I haven't got a boyfriend.

I understand that comments like 'are you seeing anyone?' or 'when are you giving us a day out?' are conversational and I don't mind them as such, but my aunties and a certain women at work who will not bloody well shut up about my lack of boyfriend.

Why do I feel like the rude one for saying 'Not just now.'?

You’re a lot more polite than I would be. Maybe you need to be a bit ruder and blunt to them? They’re probably lacking such self-awareness that this is the only way you’ll get through to them.

If someone kept on along those lines then I'd lose it and respond with increasingly outrageous & blunt comments.

I don't want to give them another reason to talk by blunt, does that sound silly?

My favourite reply to relatives who asked me why I wasn't married yet was to ask them why they weren't dead yet.

They stopped after that!

Its mostly mindless (annoying) prattle. Like when people tell children theyve grown taller.
If you don't want to make a big deal, just laugh (through gritted teeth) and change the subject. Repeatedly. It'll feel awkward the first time maybe, but power through.
Hopefully they'll take the hint, if not try Laugh-"not this again"-subject change.

You are their entertainment.

We make sport for our friends and they in turn make sport for us.

Are you seeing someone- well I am seeing several people and I am a member of a swingers club.....

I mean, I don't turn around and say 'divorced yet Elaine?'

Unfortunately OP, if and when you do meet someone, the next question will be ‘ooooh do I need to buy a hat?’ and then ‘ooooh will we hear the patter of tiny feet soon?’ And then ‘well obviously you’ll want to give DC a sibling.....’

Some people always think they have the right to comment....deffo go with PsychoSyd’s response - brilliant!

People that ask me if I’m getting married soon get the response “will you be getting divorce soon”

They can fuck right off. My person life is no-one else’s business

You need to watch the film - The lobster.

The only response you need is, "Why on earth would you ask something so personal?"

It's OK to ask if you are prepared for a blunt answer.

"At the moment I have several fu@k buddies".

People making comments/judging on their personal life is why mumsnet exists.

Everybody does it to others, and everyone thinks they are singled out on the receiving end