How are YOU single?

"How is a fine girl like you still single?"
"I ask myself that question all the time."
After a night out at Tentations Saturday, a friend of a friend drove me home and asked me that question. How am I still single? Well I've really only been single for a few months and I've dated two guys(SEE: The Rebound and The Doctor). But I've found that after dipping my toes in the dating pool, I think I would prefer to stay on dry land for a while. That one dip has caused some damage and I think I need more time to fully recover.
But honestly, why am I still single? Why is it so hard to find someone you have chemistry with? People wonder all the time why women hold on to loser boyfriends and men that treat them like shit. Maybe it's because they know what's out there. They know that it's going to be a while of being alone, braving it by yourself, and *gasp* possibly spending Valentine's Day eating chocolate on your stained sofa while watching Titanic and wishing someone would tell you they would never let go.
So when we find someone we have chemistry with, who we feel gaga over, and feel attracted to, then we tend to hold on for dear life and pray that it will work so that we don't have to go back out there. How many times can a girl get her heart broken? How many times does she have to check her phone to make sure you haven't called?
And yet, time and time again, we do it over and over. We'll let ourselves fall, simply and only because, when we fall that's when we know we're alive.