Canwen Xu | Source | Content Strategist and In-House Dating Expert at Iris Dating App

This comeback underscores the double standard of single people having no privacy whatsoever from probing friends and relatives, while taken people get let off the hook from having to air out their entire love lives. It forces the other person to dig themselves into a deeper hole. They will feel pretty awkward having to explain why they’re so curious about your relationship status. In the midst of that awkwardness, they’ll probably have to also acknowledge that their question was pretty rude in the first place.