Single and smiling

Miami Herald ^ | 2/14/03 | Ana Veciana-Suarez

[sauropod]

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[dakine]

old hags...

[cyborg]

I do not share these nags sentiments. I'm 30 and single and unlike these deluded women, am a bit sad I don't have a boyfriend. All I read in this article is 'it's all about me' and all that super single crap. When they're old and have no one, then they'll wish they got married and had some babies.

[martin_fierro]

''Just because I'm single, it doesn't mean I'm sitting around the house waiting for the phone to ring,'' says Stacy, 30, a kindergarten teacher. 'We're not hanging around saying, `Poor us.' ''

Uh huh.

[qam1]

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Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social aspects that directly effects Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1982) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details.  

[dakine]

Exactly...I just see things from the other side, I'm 40, been married 20 years, couldn't imagine it any other way...

[FreedomAvatar]

You end up asking yourself, `Am I too picky?' But then you hear about a split-up, and I think I would rather be safe than sorry.

To regurgitate an old cliche: nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[Paul Atreides]

Now it's hip to be single.

Except for homosexuals. They are the only ones for whom marriage is not considered an outdated concept.

[cyborg]

yep... seems to me that no one takes getting married seriously anymore

[Hildy]

When I was 30, I didn't care I was single either. 30 is young. When I hit 35, then I began to rethink my singleness.

[qam1]

You end up asking yourself, `Am I too picky?' But then you hear about a split-up, and I think I would rather be safe than sorry.

To regurgitate an old cliche: nothing ventured, nothing gained.

To offer a new cliche: nothing ventured, 50%+ of your income not lost

[nmh]

Although I am happily married ... being single is certainly not the end of the world! You can be single and happy too!

[dakine]

I always got a kick out of seeing 50 year old dads at my kid's ball practices, they looked like grandpas to me...

[Publius]

Hey, I'm 55, single, with no prospects either. Of course, finding a female who shares my passion for classical music is pretty much impossible. That's one of the many reasons I took myself off the market a decade ago.

Having come from a dysfunctional family, I'm all too much aware that not everybody is cut out for marriage and family. Being alone isn't all that bad.

[Hildy]

By the way, this is the obligatory Valentine's Day "single is OK" story you get once a year.

[3catsanadog]

Some say we are approaching the day when the United States will be an unmarried majority nation

No way. Gay marriages will change that statistic for sure. </ sarcasm >

[martin_fierro]

June, 1998:

Grooming Herself to be a Bride without a Groom

OMAHA, Neb- Janet Downes is sparing no effort for her June 27 wedding.

There will be a choir, a wedding gown, the usual wedding cake and flowers -- but no groom. She is getting married to herself.

Downes, who turns 40 that day, decided on the mock wedding as a way of celebrating the fact that she is "happy with herself", regardless of the men in her life.

She'll exchange vows by reciting in front of a mirror, "I, Janet Downes, take myself with all my strengths and faults..." The music program will include the song "My Way" and a ditty Downes penned herself: "We've got to kiss a lot of frogs/Just to find that prince/You know what girls?/I'm not convinced."

More than 200 friends and relatives, including her fiancé of four years, are expected to attend, but there will be no priest. Downes said she might conduct a legal wedding with her fiancé some time in the future.

Let's not think about her honeymoon, shall we.

[3catsanadog]

Women nowadays have umpteen sexual partners and then expect a perfect man.

[SoDak]

I think the sentiments they are expressing are, more than anything, making the best of a situation they don't especially like. I'm 38 and single, and although I make fun of my married friends, I'd like to be a married man some day. But, I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person, just as what was stated above. I have friends going around for their third time already.