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It is with the greatest reluctance that I fill out any form asking for definition of my relationship “status”. Such details in my mind are generally irrelevant and nobody’s business. They are archaic and stereotyping and I refuse to be pigeonholed.
And so recently, I found myself drawing the extra box “neither” on a form that asked if I was single or married. What that had to do with the state of my swollen knee was beyond me.
Yet, like so many damn questionnaires these days, my physio seemed to think my relationship status was not only important but could neatly be explained within two narrow confines. And, I am delighted to say, it most definitely can’t.
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