re: Older People Who Never Married & Lives Alone

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i swear to god if that stupid fat frick doenst start washing the dishes
the OT will have one less Lunch Thray starter

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I bet yall trailer is filthy and smells.

Where do you go when Aubrey comes over?

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Where do you go when Aubrey comes over?

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He IS 'Aubrey', you goof.

Don't frick with me bro

I'm getting married around 80, so my 30 year old wife can change baby's diapers and mine.

The fact that people honestly believe if you’re not married something is “wrong” with you or God forbid you’re gay is interesting to me. I always thought they had it made. Most single people I know travel whenever they want, buy what they want, do whatever they want...it always seems like a great life to me. All in how you look at things I guess.

30 and feel like I’m headed that direction .

Which is ok.. I’m an only child so being alone/by myself is all I’ve really ever known

Finally coming to terms with the fact that no woman will ever want you, huh?

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30 and feel like I’m headed that direction

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I was 29 and moving in that direction. I like being alone and really enjoyed the single life in a larger city.

Buuuut here I am now on tigerdroppings at 10:30PM with my gf of 2+ years (and probably soon to be fiancee) sleeping, snoring, and drooling on my arm.

You never know. Just as I was confidently telling everybody who would listen how I wasn't interested in anything serious, the goofiest, most fun loving, beautiful person forced her way into my life and wouldn't take no for an answer.

I'm a lucky guy.

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Do you know anyone older (when I say older I mean.. 40ish on up) who has never married and has always lived on their own?

Do you think they are happier? They live at their own pace. They can live how they want. Life is probably less stressful.

Or do you think they are just stuck in their ways an are just too independent to live?

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Present. Late 40's. Never close to being married. No kids. Never even had a roommate. I have a super life and have zero regrets.

It is all about knowing who you are and what you want out of life. Someone mentioned earlier in the thread that he was an only child and being alone is all he knew. While I am not an only child, my sister didn't come along til I was 7 and my formative years were spent really with nobody to play with. I grew up in a remote area where there were no other kids. I learned to entertain myself and not rely on others for my happiness.

That's not to say that I intentionally stayed away from the possibility of marriage, but I have never consciously looked for it, either.

I come from an extended family that is chronically middle-class white trash (I say that kinda lovingly, but not very). Out of my aunts/uncles/cousins, more than half are divorced. Most remarried and several have multiple baby-daddies or mommas. I wouldn't even consider trading places with any of them.

Until my mid-30's, I felt a little pressure to "conform" to societal norms and try to find a wife, but finally I said "frick it" and realized that it just wasn't in the cards for me. Chasing something that you don't yearn for deep down is a horrible way to live.

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Do you know anyone older (when I say older I mean.. 40ish on up) who has never married and has always lived on their own? Do you think they are happier? They live at their own pace. They can live how they want. Life is probably less stressful.

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If they are women, they are miserable and have possibly gone insane as well.

If they are men, they are, without a shadow of a doubt, the happiest people on the planet.