1. When you meet up with your friend and they surprise you with their S.O.
2. When your friend spends a little too long saying goodbye to their current squeeze and you're just standing there.
3. When you make plans with your friend and they ask to bring their S.O. and you just don't know how to say no.
4. Sometimes it can feel like you are a third wheel to your actual parents.
5. When you are stuck in a confined space with just you and a couple for an extended period of time.
6. When you know your friends just want a nice couple picture, but you tried to get involved and now it's too late to back out.
7. Or when the couple just don't realise that you are in their sweet couple picture at all.
8. When your mum asks you if you're seeing someone.
9. When your friend brings you to a party where you know no one and then spends the whole time making out.
10. When you go on a night out with a couple and they are trying to set you up the whole time.
11. When your friend cancels plans with you to hang out with their S.O.
12. When your housemate invites their date over and you want to go to your room, but you also really want to watch what's on TV right now.
13. When it's the end of the night at a house party and everyone is making out apart from you.
14. When a couple actually invite you out with them, and you assume they'll make an effort not to be lovey-dovey, but they don't.
15. When you end up sitting between a couple and none of you want this.
16. When you have no one to do couple costumes with.
17. When even art seems to be mocking you.
18. When everyone has a two-for-one partner for happy hour already, so you have to drink twice as much.
19. Pretty much everything about weddings.
20. When you somehow actually manage to be a fifth wheel.
21. Or the very rare seventh wheel.
22. Some have even claimed to have sighted the mythical ninth wheel.
Sometimes being single truly sucks.
