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18 Self-Destructive Things Single People Need To Stop Doing Right Now

Seriously. Just stop it. There's enough of that behavior on VH1's Wicked Single, debuting on -- you guessed it -- St. Patrick's Day 2013.

1. Pre-gaming at home, then showing up to the club brimming with wine and despair

2. Grasping at straws

3. Assuming everyone wants a piece of your action

4. Making wishing/hoping/praying your #1 dating strategy

5. Second-guessing yourself

6. Winning drinking contests

7. Trying to ooze sexiness in all the mundane things you do

8. Waiting and waiting and waiting for them to text you back

9. Not making the second move

10. Constantly bitching about being single

11. Cock-blocking / Clam-jamming

12. Seeing everything as a metaphor* for how single you are.

13. Constantly dwelling on what might have been.

14. Reading a little too much into everything

15. Freaking out and hiding from your ex

16. Having impossibly high standards

17. Settling

18. Acting like this.