[FreedomFriend]

Lorianne. While I agree that anyone could find anyone, despite a few exceptions, women have a much easier time. For a man, it can take months to get a date, being that most women want to know the individual first. On the other hand, women have often gotten new boyfriends within a week of their last breakup. You know women have an easier time, unless they're senior citizens, of which widowers have an extreme advantage over widows.

[Lorianne]

I have to disagree. Many people are extremely critical and picky. The single people I know who say they are looking all extremely critical of others and less willing to give others the benifit of the doubt.

Most are also extremely cynical and overly critical of the opposite sex ... similar to the theme of this article, demonizing the opposite sex. (This goes for both men and women). A person with this type of negative attitute would have a hard time finding someone to date and/or marry.

The bottom line is that these types of people are simply less interested in commitment/marriage.

Like I said, that's fine, there have always been these types of people, always will be. Nowdays there is less social pressure to marry, so people don't feel they have to pretend to want to be married, or marry out of social pressure. So, some men and women who truly don't want to be married don't marry.

The thing I wonder about is, without the social pressure to marry, why do people feel the need to justify their decisions all the time with such cynicisms as "There are no good men/women out there" and "marriage is a trap", etc. Why don't they just admit they don't want to be married and all that entails.