So, if you haven’t yet found Mr/Mrs Right, after what for most people is less than 10 years on the market, you’ve probably got problems? Or, their fiance kicked the bucket?
I know a few people that fit the above criteria, and they have no “problems” other than they have yet to find someone that they want to settle down for the rest of their lives with.
Or, is settling for someone that you don’t think you’d be happy with the norm where you live?
[url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=165359&perpage=50&highlight=monty&pagenumber=2]Right here, at 10:26 PM California time, I said to Susanann:
bernse: It seems that she’s a tad fond of her ill-formed opinion, no matter how freaking stupid it is.
One of my goals in life is to be 30 and unmarried. But then, some might say that I have “problems” ('course, one of my problems is people telling me that I got problems, so go fuck some C4, all righty?).
Ya know, I bet ol’ whatzerface…Susanann…wuz been the most popular cousin at the fambly reunion. Last time I heard social commentary like that was from the Redneck Cousin’s Dating Service and Family Reunion Planning Bidness.
Marriage is NOT the ultimate life goal of a mentally healthy individual.
What I would like to know from Susanann is, do the problems start on the 30th birthday or the day after? I want to know because I was 30 when I married and I wonder how long I had been having problems.
All I remember was dancing on the beach and watching the sunrise on my 30th birthday and then everything went black…
Uh Oh - I’m 33 and single and have every intention of staying that way until I’m pushing up the daisies. Don’t want to get married because I’m an athiest and don’t believe in it (amongst other things).
Still, nice to be informed that I have problems I guess.
Well, ideally both. But given advances in modern science are unlikely to make that a possibility in the next 2 months I guess I’ll have to settle for staying single.
I am aware that I could get married, I just believe too strongly that it would be hypocritical so I will continue to choose not too.
Perhaps I’ve been to long in the metropolis but I find it pretty hard to think of reasons to get married, and I’m now over 40. Sure, it’s one of those conditioned/propagandist deals that’s difficult to shake off - and some of my women friends seem to find comfort in the security aspect - but marriage seems curiously ‘last century’ to me. Especially when I see how it pans out for so many, spoken or unspoken; “Lives of quiet desperation” and all that malarkey.
Absolutely 100% indifferent. I suppose I just don’t get what the attraction is . . …
The attraction, for me, was the idea of a “connection” (define to mean physical, spiritual and intellectual) with another human being. I believe it is the natural state of man (And woman).
Well, I’m certainly glad that I don’t fit in with that “must have ‘problems’” group. I have 10 days to find and marry someone, just so I can have been married before I’m 30.
Now, I can get it annulled after that, right? I mean, 10 days isn’t a long time to get to know someone. And I don’t have to actually sleep with him after only knowing him for a day or two, right? Or does that make it not a “real” marriage?
And I thought I was relatively normal. Ah well, just call me Abby Normal.
