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[quote=Anonymous]I'm 53 and never married. I did have opportunities but balked at all of them. My standards were not too high or picky - I just refused to take the load that so many women take in long term committed relationships. By that I mean the patently unfair distribution of household labor and childcare obligations and life management tasks. I especially had no desire to take on that subservient role in the face of ingratitude, inconsideration and often also infidelity.

I won't kid you, life as a single woman going it alone has often been hard. I have always had wonderful friends who buoyed me up, but I have often wondered if my life couldn't have been much easier and better with a man by my side.

But now that I'm in midlife I'm looking around at the failed marriages, the widows, the very unhappily married couples who are staying together for finances and out of habit and who look like people who spend all their time lonely and unhappy but yet spend most of their time in 'togetherness.'

I feel grateful for my occasional loneliness which is much easier to bear than that awful loneliness one can experience with someone else sitting right there in the same room.[/quote]

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