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[quote=Anonymous]Not saying this is right, but my husband and I have a saying "single or single for a reason." And my old anthropology teacher said that if you do not try to get married early, then you are contending with the leftovers.

I am AA and I have read so many obnoxious articles that place so many pressures on AA single women and dating. I have many single friends in their late 30s very great catches, smart, beautiful, athletic, funny etc. I think this consumerism approach to dating with checklists and over pressure of "is this the one" is so burdomsom and people should simple appreciate people in the moment to get to know them and the gift of their presence and see where it goes and invest in people as having intrisic worth. My husband and I had different ideas of who we would marry on paper, but we had the same attitude towards respecting and getting to know one another and it worked out. I just cannot stand all this neigh talk about people's "baggage" as if no one has it, as if baggage is permanent, and as if people cannot change, grow, learn and improve.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2017/02/08/dating-wasnt-working-for-me-until-i-went-out-with-15-guys-in-one-month/?hpid=hp_rhp-more-top-stories_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.95944cb1cad8

I found this article interesting about male/female distribution and the dating scene
http://time.com/dateonomics/

If you click on the availability of men by age and whether they have a college degree, you can see the differences in availability in population
http://labs.time.com/story/see-the-ratio-of-single-men-to-women-where-you-live/
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