It is to be dismissed utterly, because it's all ego-mind delusion. People who make decisions about another's character based on speculative fantasies simply disqualify themselves - they are too stuck in their heads to make reliable partners, anyway. Every decision she makes in a relationship will be based on what her friends say, or what some TV character did in the same situation.
Only you can judge you. The opinions of others don't count.
Sorry to differ with you sir but the opinions of others most certainly do matter, unless one thinks oneself wiser than all others.
And I tell you true, women see a never-married man past 30, never mind 50, the first thing they want to know is why he was passed over by everyone for 10 years, never mind 30.
What did they all figure out, that isn’t stamped on his scalp? Where’s he been all this time? Prison? Gay bars? Mental hospital? In the basement of his parents’ house, playing with his collection of toy tractors?
Like it or not, this is what goes through what a woman is pleased to call her mind, at the encounter with a confirmed bachelor.
In our culture, the prevailing opinion is that normal people do well to marry. When they don’t, it’s reasonable to wonder if maybe they’re NOT normal.