If men/women can tell I'm single, that's okay. I suspected my neighbors were married, then BAM, the male resident referred to the female as his wife!
I want to be single. Yeah, I get that human packs cull useless, peripheral persons, like cutting off a hanging cyst before cancer develops (Florida is an example of what can happen).
I truly become angry when I'm expected to do such-and-such "just because." I'm not a burden like I was at times in my youth. So, just let me fly solo, sans speculative gossip.