How To Stay Single

Picture this: you meet an amazing guy. Your first date flows like something out of a wildly successful movie. You're two great looking people who are both on the same wavelength: similar sense of humor, you're both well-versed on a variety of different topics, you both have a love for art and travel, and (good lawd! Hallelujah! Amen!) he has his own place, no kids and he's straight!

This is seriously one of the best dates you've been on in a long time, maybe ever. The date lasts into the night. He invites you back to his place, and although you've never gone back to a dude's place on the first date, you're open to the possibility of what the night may bring. You don't know if you're gonna sleep with him, but you definitely know you don't want the night to end.

So you go back to his place, a well-kept building in a young professional neigborhood. His kitchen is clean, his living room is a typical bachelor set up. He proceeds to give you the tour, saving the bedroom for last. When you finally enter the bedroom, there, to your thirty-something horror, is a twin bed in the middle of the room. (And not a brand new one either...one that looks like it was purchased in the 70s, which, by your calculation would make it his childhood bed.)

Baffled, you await the explanation. Y'know, something like, "I just moved in and I'm waiting for my bed to arrive" or "My bed broke and it's being fixed" or something to indicate that this grown-ass man isn't still sleeping on his childhood bed 20+ years later and is ok with it.

Nothing.

Your attraction to this man is oddly dissipating as you stand there staring at the bed. You try to rationalize the situation to yourself: Snap out of it! This is the best date you've been on in a long time. Why should a little thing like this change everything?!

But you know deep down inside that things have changed. Why, oh why couldn't he have a futon? you wonder. Or an air mattress? Or even the pull-out couch? Why?

Is there any rationale explanation for a grown man with his own place to still have his childhood bed?