Cliches: whatever is meant to be will be

We were having a discussion about cliches yesterday when we started throwing out really common ones that we hear ALL THE TIME. One of the cliches that came up was whatever is meant to be will be. In theory, both E and FD agree but when you constantly are baraged with it the cliche quickly gets old.

In FD's case, she has some family members that constantly are on her to "find a man" because that's fun and in E's case its to have babies (man or no) because she's getting ancient. When we mention to our families that we aren't at that point they like to say well whatever is meant to be will be. Awesome. Thanks for pointing that out. In one recent interaction with her grandmother, E was told to try that match.com thing like grandma sees in her soaps. E tried to explain to grandma how creepy match and eharmony can be--I mean come on, who's looking for a 60 year old sugar daddy that likes to "wink" at you on match? E isn't. FD tried several of the online dating sites with no success to. Grandma told E that maybe she's just meant to be alone which won't be a fun existence--thanks Grandma.

So in theory while we agree whatever is meant to be will be--stop saying it to people, they already get it and they already know why the single life is a challenge without your help.