Ask men and women in their forties and fifties who have not yet married how many of them are happy to be single. There may be those who married and wished they hadn’t, but most likely, they wish they either made a choice to marry someone different or at a different time, not to never marry. Even in the cases of divorce which I know of, the involved parties don’t wish to never have had their kids; only perhaps to have made a different choice of marriage partner or to have handled things differently. That’s not to say everyone feels that way. I speak of those I know and the many friends I know who are plotzing to get married. There might be a stage when being single is enticing, but it doesn’t last forever.
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