You're just a COWARD, if you've never been married into your 50's but would like to

Or the “I just don’t feel like it” excuse. It is conceivable that there are men out there who really just don’t want the hassle and responsibility of having a family. It’s not something that you HAVE to do if you don’t want to.

The original poster sounds like Patrick Swayze from Donnie Darko. “Every human action is a product of either fear or love.” You could force the categorization, but it would lose so much detail as to be meaningless.

Then there are those who were afraid, but by the time they got over there fear, there was no chance of romance left.

Thank you!. I could not for the life of me figure out why the OP sounded familiar - this is it.

What about incredibly ugly people or the socially inept?
But thats enough about me…

How so? Either way, one of you has to leave the mortgage or lease you had together, find a new place and pay for it, furnish it, etc. You have to sort out who gets what of the stuff you’ve bought together, and how the other party gets compensated for what they contributed to the cost. If you have joint bank accounts, you have to split those up. If you have kids, you’re still responsible for as much of their housing, childcare, food, etc as you always were.

Just keep going, my big fat butt. Breaking up any relationship where you’ve co-mingled your lives and finances, married or not, is expensive and messy.

Change FEAR or COWARD to TEH GHEY FAG0T!!1! and see what kind of debate you get.

Only on the way to fifty.
I would love to get married - I would like kids - hell some days I would like a hug!
But I cannot bear to be touched*.
All because I’m a coward - nothing to do with trauma and evil bastards at all.
Gee thanks.

*Thing are improving: over the last twelve months I have mostly been able to shake hands and accept pats on the shoulder and stuff. I’m making myself deal with stuff and do things that cause me fear and discomfort for a possibility of a future.