If you have a very long term or life-long single friend / relative (or you are one yourself) how do you treat them (you are treated)?

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Yes, I am one, and I’d like to know how people on average (would) treat people like me, to see how that compares to the way I’m treated / spoken to and if that’s normal.
I’d appreciate anyone commenting…. Even if it’s harsh, that’s why I posted on AIBU and not on relationships.

Same here. Doesn't matter if they're married, single or somewhere in between, they're a friend and are treated the same as any other friend.
I don't do setting people up, I don't do different groups of friends kept apart, and I don't do couples only weekends/parties. Everyone is afforded the same hospitality.

I'm permanently single and with coupled-up friends. I don't believe I'm treated any differently to anyone else who isn't single.

If your friends or relatives treat you poorly, whether it's due to you being single or not, I think your life would be better without them in it.

One of my closest friends, who I have known for about 15 years has never had a partner in the whole time I've known her. I treat her as I would any other friend - we meet up often, chat often. I've often been close to women who are long term single - not sure why, but lots of my good friends never married or had children. It's not really something that I have ever seen as meaning I'd treat them differently.

I'm long term single and haven't noticed being treated any different to anyone else.

I have a male friend who’s been single since I’ve known him - about 15 years.

I treat him like I’d treat any other friend. He is quite reticent about his personal life - I didn’t have any sense of his sexual orientation until a few years ago when he casually mentioned that someone had assumed he was gay, but he isn’t.

He did once say to me that having no partner or children, people treat him like he doesn’t quite count as a person. I find this very sad.

LTS here. Not sure if this answers your question but if you go to the pub with some couples they buy every other round, rather than two out of every three rounds. That drives me mad. And most friends who are married have absolutely zero concept of how hard it is being solely responsible for a home, all the bills and chores, etc.
Most of my friends are actually single themselves but my friends in couples tend to treat me like they would anybody else. I avoid socialising with 'every other round' couples.

I have no idea if the OP does this but threads like this make me think people live in their own heads way too much, how much added drama do people add to things with only their head as evidence it happens

This endless need society seems to do of 'ooo I am being judged all the time' seems very narcissistic

So much of this resonates but your point about not being able to talk to married friends about dating hits the nail on the head. Mine literally have no clue what it's like or how draining it can be. They have no idea that its private and I don't want them to talk to everyone about it. I only really talk to single friends about it as I don't need to explain myself over or justify why someone isn't right for me.
And I 100% agree about work, I work full time and I heard one friend with grown up children the other day say she was looking for a new job but could only work two days a week......I wish I could do that.