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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am really sad about the tiny chances of partnering up with a cultured, emphatic man in my age group who is not tangled in some energy-draining co-parenting situation. In my opinion/experience, all good men between 40 and 55 are taken. Those who have never married have issues. Those who get divorced have issues (certainly including me).

[b]There really is a reason why most marriages take place between the ages of 25 and 30, when both genders are at the peak of their physical beauty. [/b]

FWIW, I am successful, in shape and take care of myself. I have an 11 year-old.

I am just very disheartened at the thought that the ship sailed for me 20 years ago. I find the whole idea of online dating repulsive - it is like a meat market out there.[/quote]

Do you imagine that this fact has any bearing on the quality or longevity of the marriage?

Most marriages are some degree of dysfunctional, from absolute misery to apathy. The minority of marriages are functional and happy. The children of marriages who get married and repeat the dysfunction are the proof.

The older I get, the more ironic I find the lament that never married people have ‘something wrong with them’. I have a number of never married friends, other women like me and men too. Society looks at us as freaks with something broken inside, yet doesn’t look the same way at people with multiple divorces under their belts. What a joke.

Most never married people are just wise to the nightmare that marriage is in the great many cases, especially for women. I get one life. I didn’t want to waste the majority of my waking hours being a domestic servant to an adult child and any number of actual children, while being disregarded and/or taken for granted at every turn, and often receiving little love for the efforts.

Now all the happily marrieds will chime in with their tales of domestic bliss. Yay for you. There has to be some reason that never married women live the longest healthiest lives, statistically speaking.[/quote]

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