Reminds me of a very sad man sitting in the crowded waiting room at divorce court one day. He was a black man in his mid-50s. He looked like he was in shock. He kept shaking his head. When I sat down, he looked at me and said, "Never again. I waited all those years, and I finally got married, and it didn't even last a year."
I tried to lighten his mood by saying, "At least you didn't waste too much time. I just spent 20 years with the wrong person."
But, he still kept shaking his head sadly and saying, "Never again."
I know many nice people who never married, including some family members. They just never met the right person. People shouldn't read too much into it.
Exactly. It used to be that “confirmed bachelors” and spinster aunts were regular and accepted members of society. Nowadays it’s assumed they’re all homos and pedos.