I just want to kind of show a little support to the person who PMed Keri...or something...
Now, by some miracle, I ended up getting into a relationship the same week that Kirk and Keri got together. Had I still been single, I would have been EXTREMELY depressed by news of their relationship. The presence of non-singles on the Singles Forum greatly bothered me. I wasn't jealous, I just wanted the Singles Forum to be more of a safe haven. When you're unhappy about being single, it's hard enough seeing people hold hands in real life, and to see people sort of virtually holding hands online in a forum designed for single people really irked me.
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This is what I would have felt about the avatar when I was still single:
Seeing your avatar does bother me and I wish you wouldn't use that picture for your avatar. It reminds me of all the mushy threads you made when you and Luther first got together (even seeing the titles of those threads (not just reading them) greatly bothered me). The avatar, especially when paired with the little love smiley and the "In love with ____!!!!" that is usually under you and Kirk's screen names makes me feel very sad and wish that the Singles Forum still felt safe.
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I dunno, it's just something to think about. Personally, I'm not too fond of people having mushy things in their signatures, avatars, or the space under their name if they're going to be posting in the Singles Forum often.