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A drink with a friend before your wedding is a tradition Siobahn Watson was determined to follow. Now she wishes she hadn't.

Watson, 24, of Manchester, England, a telesales assistant, was engaged to Aaron Todd, also 24, a bricklayer. A white Rolls-Royce had been hired, the bridal party's gowns had been designed, fitted and paid for, guests had been invited and a lot of money had been spent on the function at which everyone would celebrate the happy day.

Unfortunately, Watson's final drink as a single woman turned into something of a final fling as a single woman. Not all the details have been released, but we can read between the sheets.

Some hours before her wedding, Watson went out for that fateful drink with the unnamed "friend". They drank. They drank some more. At some point Watson lost her mobile phone. At some other point, the two stopped drinking and went to a motel.

We know only two things for certain that went on in that motel room. One is that Siobahn Watson went to sleep. We know that because we have been told the other thing that happened: she woke up.

She woke at about the same time that she was supposed to be saying, "I do."

Later, Watson was quoted as saying, "When I realised I had missed my own wedding, I started shaking. I could not believe I had been so stupid."

Aaron Todd, who had spent longer than expected standing, alone, by the altar, while friends and family tried continuously to ring Siobahn on her lost mobile phone, was quoted as saying, "She won't get a second chance.''

dailystar.co.uk; image: firstpersonsingular.org

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Dating, Europe, UK, Human nature, Odd Spot, Romance, Sex

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Do single women prefer attached men?

August 13th 2009 00:51

The question has been around ever since Eve stole Adam from his first wife, but has recently been given an entertaining new airing by writer Justin Prugh. He uses Eve as an example too, citing her biting of the forbidden apple as evidence that all women get excited by what they can't have.

"In the Garden of Eden," writes Prugh, "Eve sinks her teeth into the one piece of fruit that God instructed her to avoid. So began a long line of women who wanted, oh so badly, what they could not have. We see the same trend continue today with women staring longingly at designer shoes, fawning over limited-edition jewelry and above all, chasing after already spoken-for men. Be it human or handbag, the more tantalizingly out of reach it is, the more appealing it becomes."

I said it was an entertaining new airing, not a necessarily a correct one.

Emma-Kate Dobbin, an editor at askmen.com, says, "In my opinion, this issue of women (and come to think of it – men too) wanting what they can’t have comes down to a lack of originality or confidence in following their own vision. Instead of finding someone else out there who is single, they need to go after someone who has already proved their romantic worth to others."

Dobbin's theory may be especially true of younger adults, receiving support in a new study by social psychologists Melissa Burkley and Jessica Parker. In the study, results of which were published in this month's issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, a participating group of male and female university students was shown a series of profiles of other young people, and asked their reactions in terms of romantic attraction and possibility. Half the participants were told possible matches were single, while the other half were told the same person was currently in a committed relationship.

The men described as single averaged 59 per cent of positive responses from single women. The men described as being in a committed relationship averaged 90 per cent positive responses from single women.

Neither single nor attached men showed the same preference, and neither did attached women.

“This finding indicates that single women are considerably more interested in pursuing a man who is less available to them,” said Dr Burkley. “This may be because a man who is attached has already shown his ability to commit and, in a sense, has been pre-screened by another woman.”

Beware single women carrying apples.

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