Would you turn down this invite on principle?

[Colombo]

I've been single for ages. Although I rarely turn down an invite and I'm quite sociable, weekends are the time I'm least likely to be socialising. Even so the last two years haven't been lonely. I have a couple good girlfriends and most weeks I get to see them during the week. There's no law that says that socialising must be done at the weekend. It's only 48 hours.

Here's the question. If a friend you'd known for decades invited you because you are dating somebody, do you accept the invitation with relief, gratitude and excitement? or do you turn it down because you know in your heart you are still single, and you're baffled as to why you weren't invited as a single person. Might it be better not to get used to being included?

I know how you feel - its a coupled up world - I rerely get invited to dinner party type events because i'm not part of a couple. Also do you get invited to weddings without a guest on the invite - I fed up with it - Think its very rude!

I'd be inclined to take it up with the friend and maybe tease her a little about being a Noah's Arker and see what she says. It is wanky of people to behave like this but we live in a world so obsessed with couplehood that some unimaginative mundanes-- people don't actually realise how stupid and unkind they are being by treating non-heteromonogamous people as second-class.