[mafree]

These women who never got married are looking at a bleak future. I hear it all the time. They have no husbands but they also avoid successfully married women.

Not me- I've never been married, have no strong desire to marry, and have no kids. My future is as good as I make it and I know that I'm responsible for that, not "Prince Charming."

I want to see all my female friends who desire to be married in good marriages, and it pains me when they divorce, get stuck with jerks, or never find the right guy. My best girlfriend is in a happy second marriage and I couldn't be more pleased that this one has worked for her. A high school friend has had a good marriage of 21 years, and I'm thrilled that it's gone well for her. Some other friends have divorced and I'm always sad when that happens.

No, I don't avoid my friends who have good marriages- if anything, they're usually more fun to be around than those who mope and cry about being lonely or mistreated.

[RLJVet]

Of course I put by foot in my mouth. It was late at night and I would have been better off not posting. I certainly mean SOME of my contemporaries. As of 32 years old I was unmarried and I felt quite as you do. I had great role models who were either not married and/or never had children or widowed- old ladies now- who seemed to miss nothing in life.
I could have said SOME women and expanded on that.