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[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.  

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 They are the only ones for whom marriage is not considered an outdated concept.

[nmh]

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

[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.

[Stellar Dendrite]

"Consider the enormous popularity of Sex and the City"

yeah four single sluts living it up in NYC....and we wonder why the percentage of degenerate scum is swelling. the feminist propagandists are at it once again.

[traumer]

Relax and enjoy life....

Valentine is just a big CONSPIRACY of the florist, chocolate and diamond business for the average Joe/Jane herd.

BAAAAAH - BAAAAH

[PackerBoy]

I was in no hurry to marry, and found the girl of my dreams and was married at age 40. If you had asked me while I was single if I was happy, I would have to say yes because I was. I am also happy now that I am married.

The people I knew who were unhappy single are still unhappy, married or not.

[longtermmemmory]

IOW people are being raised to be cowards and fear. The don't see the potential good only the inherit risks.

A life without offense, a life without any risk, a life without any pain. They want guarantees in life. They must be democrats. (s)they will want a government mandated dating service next.(/s)

[RedWhiteBlue]

In Florida alone, according to 2002 Census data, there were more than 5.2 million unmarried adults, making it one of a handful of states with an unmarried majority (51.1 percent). Of those, 1.8 million lived alone. Some cities scored high on the single household numbers, too: Miami (63.4 percent), Miami Beach (72.6 percent), Fort Lauderdale (67.8 percent), and Hollywood (58.5 percent)

Of course those areas are high in the number of singles ... they are FULL of retirees that have become widows / widowers. A high rate of singles is not uncommon in that age range. To draw meaningful conclusions about those choosing to delay marriage or be unattached, the author should have limited their analysis to younger demographics.

[Aeon Flux]

I don't know. I was married for 12 years and hated it. I was with the wrong guy and always had a crappy Valentine's Day.

Now that I am single my life has been great!
Just today I have I gotten 3 boxes of Godiva, Hello Kitty jammies, CDs, flowers sent, and many various dinner invites!

I just love being single!

But, to each their own. If marriage works for you, that is great, if not then there is a wonderful life of independence as well.

[qam1]

No biggie but could you change the date of the article from 2003 to 2004, I've been doing that a lot lately, Sorry

[Gunrunner2]

>>From Norma Agras, a 52-year-old divorced mother of two grown children: 'I'm not closing myself off to the possibility of meeting someone, but I like my life the way it is. My motto is: `My life, my terms.' ''<<

Yup, no sense in sharing a life when one can be self-absorbed.

A marriage is sharing and a marriage is compromise. No wonder this self-centered witch is divorced.

[Dan from Michigan]

I'm not ready for marriage. NO WAY.

[Cacique]

L8R

[BBell]

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