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Mrs WBill has a number of friends who are exactly like this woman - single, full-time professionals, world-travelers, full-time partiers. They came to a get-together, recently, and I was there too. Occasionally, it's fun to be a fly on the wall and listen to these terribly broken people. On the surface, they're all smiles and excitement, but there's a lot of unhappiness beneath that extremely thin veneer. It's very validating, shows to me that I've made all the correct choices. But I digress....

Anyhoo, they were talking about all the wonderfully fun things that they've done, and poking at my wife. "Listen to how awesome we are, we're everything that you're not, and don't you wish you were us!" -type stuff. It was friendly banter, but I could tell it was getting under my wife's skin. All the wine her friends (but not my wife) had consumed likely didn't help things.

After a substantial amount of prodding - more than I'd have put up with - Mrs WBill had enough. "All those things sound wonderful, but I chose to have grandkids and someone to grow old with, instead."

You could've heard a pin drop at the party. Game, set and match to my lovely wife.

I am familiar with that crowd. Your story is correct; they are broken people. Too much SITC nonsense and too many (ahem) “partners” (lotsa), during their lifetime has damaged their ability to pair bond.