She needs to accessorize properly.
Posted on 05/15/2015 2:39:28 PM PDT by BJ1
Why does she have to be a spinster? What about and Old Maid or a Maiden Aunt?
I hope she finds someone.
She needs to accessorize properly.
What is the ratio of cats per children? Is it 1:1 or do you need more than 1 cat per?
25:1
I won’t have more than three.
I call it the “poop limit.”
Men and Women are different. The fact that women cherish family and children is ingrained in biology.
Social planners can’t make men and women become interchangeable cogs in a machine, no matter how hard they try.
I’ve got a 10 pound cat now that produces 6 pounds of poop and 4 pounds of hair a week.
Another nail in the coffin of Western Civilization.
I am a spinster, old maid, maiden Aunt or whatever term people want to throw at me. Do I obsess over it? No. Do I let other people’s comments get to me? Rarely.
Would I like to be married? Of course.
Actually the worst comments and “pity” generally come from other single women. I don’t hang around with them because everything devolves into a disfunctional support group about not meeting anyone.
My married friends accept me as the one who never met anyone to settle down with and after watching the messes some of my siblings and cousins have made, my parents are fine with my life.
>>>Actually the worst comments and “pity” generally come from other single women. I don’t hang around with them because everything devolves into a disfunctional support group about not meeting anyone.<<<
What do they say? And why do you suppose these women are still single when they obviously don’t want to be single?
It would never occur to me to care about old or new or in between “tropes”. Don’t know why women do. Don’t much care. Live your life, die, go to judgment.
The First World War left nearly a million British women without husbands. Although Britain survived, its empire crumbled.
The War on the Family has had a much larger effect. The ultimate effect on Western Civilization is unknown.
Ladies, if you were in your 50’s or above and were looking for a man, what would your first thought be about a man your age who had never married? Would you consider him without concern?
It would make me do a lot of thinking. But then again, I’m not a spinster.
“You’ve got to meet someone or you’ll lose friends. They dump you for their man” is my favorite.
“It’s just so hard to meet somebody. Of course you can’t meet anyone.”
“I just don’t understand why someone as cool/pretty/smart/nice as you can’t attract someone.”
Imagine these repeated ad nauseam for hours. Seriously, except for the year I made the New Year’s resolution to “put myself out there” and brought it up myself, the subject never comes up in groups with married women.
Most older single women are that way because they aren’t attracting the man they want to be with. Either the bar is set by weird shallow things(he must make 250K but be home by 5:30 and have washboard abs, but I don’t want him going to the gym because he might flirt), they make choices/exhibit behaviors that put them in a position that men who would commit shy away from, or their lifestyle/career choices limited opportunities for meeting eligible men at a younger age.
I may just may have a little bit of all of these issues ;)
Typical “cat ladies” DON’T look like that! She’s way too attractive and feminine.
Issues: It’s why I went abroad to find a wife (I simply wanted a traditional woman that wasn’t obsessed with materialism). Marriage seems like a scam to me as a man. The man MUST pay child support and divide his assets. But the woman can leave at any time for any reason.
So I think that it may be easier for an older woman to get married once the fear of child support is over because the woman can’t have any kids. And that is one less stumbling block for a man. Of course by the time the woman is 40ish, will a 40ish man be interested in her back? Or will she have to settle for a 50ish man......hence going back to your point about unrealistic expectations.
“Most older single women are that way because they aren’t attracting the man they want to be with”
A lot of decent women don’t marry, because they’re not encountering decent men.
I waited a long time to marry, because it seemed like every guy I met wanted to hop in bed on the second or third date. The ‘sexual revolution’ had made sex so easy for men, that they didn’t bother with someone who was conservative when it came to sex and its responsibilities. They were also pretty dumb - not father material.
I didn’t even meet the man I would marry until I was almost 40.
There are no ‘rules’ about these things; it all happens for right-minded people when it should.
On the other hand, there have always been both men and women who had no interest in marriage, for various reasons- they were either asexual, or just interested in other things, and lived productive lives without marriage.
But nowadays, people like that are immediately branded as “gay”. People don’t think beyond their own natures, and can’t imagine that another person’s nature may be different.
“I’ve got a 10 pound cat now that produces 6 pounds of poop and 4 pounds of hair a week.”
Multiply that by four and you’re at my house. Sigh. And never a day goes by without cleaning up a pile of vomit somewhere on the premises.
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