Making It Official

I did something big the other day. Well, I didn't realize how big it was until I did it and received a flood of comments. Apparently, changing your relationship status on Facebook is something akin to announcing an upcoming sex change operation. It's an even bigger deal if you dare to list your partner's name. I certainly hadn't expected the response that I got!

Some people seemed *shocked*. Wow, why now? It must be serious. Some people seemed *disappointed*. Does this mean you're off the market? As if I was ever on the market. Some people wanted to know if his profile indicated that I was his girlfriend. Like it would be wrong for one of us to have it but not the other. Some were actually *gasp* happy for me. And some thought it was funny. Lien would never post anything so personal! Even people who knew I had been in a relationship for some time now thought something had to have fundamentally changed for me to now publish this news for all my friends to see.

It's true, I never bothered to do it before; but nothing specific had really prompted me to change my status. Maybe it was subconscious and I'm admitting that I really do want to be committed to this guy but what's wrong with letting the world know that? Or maybe I just felt like it that night.

As with everything else, the shock will blow over in a couple of days and my Facebook profile will go back to its mundane life: wishing people a happy birthday and posting the occasional photo. But for a moment, it was the biggest news my profile had ever delivered in one simple click of a button.