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Last man standing
Like a row of dominoes that stood still for years waiting for the shove to topple them, one by one they went. After a decade of swearing blind into their pints that it wouldn't happen to them, I woke up one morning to discover that my four best friends were all married.
Sam started it all. And like lemmings, Lee, Jonathan and Darren all followed suit in the space of a year. Should I be happy? Like hell, I should. While they ran around compiling invitations with swirly silver writing, making wedding lists at John Lewis (all having the cheek to stick a DVD player in there) and booking expensive honeymoons at places where their pasty skins would never see the sun, I was left contemplating one ugly fact: amongst our little crew of once carefree single bucks, I was the last man standing.
After getting over the initial shock of realising I'd have to go through the gruelling task of tie-shopping four times in the space of 12 months (it's too shameful to be seen wearing the same one at every ceremony), I realised that this mass marriage malarky could have happened a lot sooner. It was just that we were all scared to be the first one to sign away singledom.
It's a myth that men think about getting hitched less than women. However, in the company of other blokes, men are less likely to admit they're smitten with the idea - simply because it's not seen as a macho thing to do. It's a lot easier for men to exploit the notion of a 'nagging missus' who bulldozed them into submission, to disguise the fact that deep down we, too, fear being left on the shelf.
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