Here between Christmas, New Years, and ... upcoming... Valentine's Day, I'm still unmarried after all these years. This morning, learning from a senior citizen cousin that a widower in town has expressed the wrong kind of interest in me, I heard myself saying to her, "I'm convinced I was not fated to have a partner in his life."
That is true.
It's also true that I have done near nothing to find a husband or partner.
Valentine's Day is such as wistful holiday.
And I think that all these holidays, but most especially Valentine's Day is when NMNK are made to feel wrong to be alone - but not lonely!
If you are really truly lonely and do not esteem your own company, or the company of your relations, friends, coworkers, and strangers you meet here, there, and everywhere, then you will likely do something about it.
After all there are plentiful socializing networking opportunities on this Internet, if the local book club isn't doing it for you.
My senior citizen cousin is married over 50 years now, and though she met a few jerks before she married, this was all before the age of 21. These days her 18 year old grand-daughter wants to marry her boyfriend and she is howling at her not to because she is too young.
I stay out of it, but I think love is love and that this 18 year old and her boyfriend do love each other. Who am I to say that based on being too young she should give him up and get busy with education and a career instead?
