My best friend is single and will soon be 60. I don’t think she is more or less happy than most of the married women I know. And she has personality enough for 3 people.
Life is challenge and a marriage isn’t a guarantee for happiness. A loveless marriage is the worst thing I can imagine.
Since it’s not a choice I made myself, I can’t say anything about it. I would observe that there’s a difference between “choosing to be single” and “making choices that result in ending up single.”
It seems that quite a few women end up permanently single, when that’s not really what they wanted, because they decided against pursuing marriage at the most probable time of life.
No. Next question?
I married a lady that believed she was destine to be a spinster ... Best decision I ever made but the lady, I married, has class beyond anyone have ever met .... and is so much more capable of giving than taking and if I meet her half-way (which I try to do) she overwhelms me with more caring than I’ve ever know ... Am a lucky person ...
Why don’t they ever ask this question of old men?
Sure, but the spinster will need 42 cats.
Happy people can be happy in any circumstance. My late friend, Patty, was single until her untimely death at 63. She was just a happy person who attracted many people to her. She just had no interest in dating or marrying and she was straight.
Well I’m not a spinster but I was unmarried for over 20 years when I met Mr. GG2. I finally got the right guy. I’m sorry I wasn’t a spinster the whole time til I met him. He was worth the wait.
I have a friend who never married til she was 48 and she said she just never met the right guy. They have been happily married for many years now.
I’m 34, never been married, and honestly don’t give it much thought. I’m not opposed to getting married but I don’t dwell on it and if it never happens then I still think I’ll have a full and rewarding life.
It took me until age 31 to find my soulmate. We married two years later. I wouldn’t trade him for any money, nor career, nor “independence”, nor anything else.
A lot of those women harbor anti-male attitudes, I suspect.
As an aside...I wonder why Ann Coulter has never married. She seems to like men just fine.
Luckily, I have a large extended family that all live within 20 miles of each other.
I know some very happy single women——and some miserable married ones.
That’s life.
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Depends, becaue most Lib feministas are usually already insecure already when they hit 40-50 it hits them like a sledge hammer hits a carton of eggs.
I think God wants us to be happy, whether we're married or single, have children, or don't have children. He gave me the gift of life, so why should I spend it being miserable and pining for something that may never happen? Sure, I feel lonely sometimes, but then I count my blessings and I remember that I have been greatly blessed.
That's my two cents. Now I'm off to once again claim sole ownership of the remote control!
Yes.
I know a lady who chose never to marry and is quite happy in her life.
61. Never married. Don’t have a problem with men. Don’t have a cat. Have done a lot of fun things and am VERY happy. Am constantly amazed at why people think this is strange. Whatever.