[Rummyfan]

What is ironic is that I would walk away from my career for the right man and situation. In many ways, I feel like I would rather be alone than have to acquiesce to a man's ego.

Doesn't she contradict herself in these lines? She's thirty-eight and wants to get married and have a family? Better get moving on that!

[Enterprise]

It is an extraordinarily clownish statement. She doesn't want to be under some man's thumb, but for the right man she would walk away from her career. But if she did that, it would be acquiescing to the needs of a man.

[marajade]

Women can have babies pretty safely now up until they're in their mid 40s today.

[HitmanLV]

She's thirty-eight and wants to get married and have a family?

It's difficult for her at that age. I'm 38 and don't even consider dating women my age, they are just too old for my taste. I tend to prefer women in their mid to late 20s.

I know a lot of women in their mid-late 30s who are very goodlooking but have a hard time getting first and second dates. This is not surprising to me, but it's pretty shocking to them. The kind of man they want (someone close to their age, successful, masculine) tends to want to be with younger and more fit versions of them. I feel the same way.