Personal [Concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality]

At the moment it seems like flavour of the week for the girls that I work with to fire a barrage of questions at me every day about my personal life etc. The usual, surface level questions are to be expected initially, and that much I can take. But it seems there’s always one person in a group that doesn’t pick up on your subtle indications that you would prefer not to go any further with this jolly quiz.

That person won’t stop at just asking if your attached (and if so for how long have you been thus), they want to know where you met said partner and if you married!

Not married, I say.
Well then, ‘Are you engaged?’.
Not Engaged.
Well then in that case ‘When are you going to propose?’.
Don’t know.

For this particular person, the previous three answers to the previous three questions are just not exceptable in her world. We are suddenly launched into a situation where I am being given (not offered) advice on when a man should propose and how important it is to do it right and not leave it too long.
Somehow I’m then being shown a leaflet (Yes a fucking leaflet) on pre-marraige counselling. Apparently its fantastic, and also most ‘Pastors’ won’t consider marrying a couple unless they have undergone some form of such activity. In addition I’m being informed that being married in a church is absolutely essential and it’s just not the same for anyone choosing to do otherwise.

It seems that in along with finding it completely morally reprehensible that i should not already be married (or at the very least engaged), that this person is also in utter disbelief that I have found myself fatally afflicted with not being religious or caring about whether i get married in a church.

Where can this conversation go from here? No-fucking-where, I hear you cry.

Not so in the mind of our good samaritan, I now find myself being given more advice, though again with no choice in the matter.

It seems that i am now to be regarded with the same uncertainty as an advanced stage leprosy sufferer.

Isn’t it fun getting to know people at work.