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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My SIL is 49 and has never been in a relationship.  She's lovely, smart, educated and makes a ton of money as a law partner.

In her case she basically spent her 20s and 30s working long hours. When it seems like marriage and kids wasn't going to happen she started working even more.

She also grew up in the christian church and was told that she should only marry within the faith.  That limits the potential dating pool significantly.  Yes, she could have made her own life decisions as a adult but even highly intelligent people have a hard time changing course on things like religious teachings. [/quote]

I assume she's mostly been single by choice because the majority of women will always have options or will always have suitors in their life.

A very unexpected thread this is because women have always been on the receiving end of sexual attention so women are always less at risk than men are at reaching a certain age or a certain decade and always having been alone or never having been with anyone.[/quote]

This is not true at all. Women and men both may be shy or simply not good at meeting and getting to know other people. Women and men both can have unrealistic expectations of what a partner should be like, and thus, refuse to date someone who is not “perfect.”

The woman I know in this situation is looking for someone who agrees with her every opinion and particularly her political beliefs. She cannot tolerate any point at all of disagreement. She tells people who express a different opinion from hers that they are “fighting” or “arguing” with her and she cuts off relationships with them. She has unrealistic expectations of what a relationship is like; a man could have similarly unrealistic expectations and so end up alone.

Lots of reasons why someone might not have a partner and they apply pretty equally to both men and women. 
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