How many of you have decided to be single forever

[MisterTinkles]

I'm always amazed at threads like this and the palatable desperation in so many of the posts. Here's some perspective - so you hate being single, think no one will love you because you're (insert feeble reason here like: too old, too fat, too young, too skinny, too shy, etc) - GO TO WAL-MART on any given saturday afternoon and look around at all the couples! Yea, most are str8 but LOOK CLOSELY at the variety of couples. There are morbidly obese folks on those electric scooters with a spouse in tow. There are toothless redneck-like folks who look like they just came out of a Duck Dynasty/COPS or Jerry Springer episode.

THEY FOUND A LIFE PARTNER!

The only problem with this is usually, more often than not, these people have settled with whoever would give them "the time of day". They are unhappy, upset, and constantly fighting with who they have settled with. They do this because they are too scared to live alone, don't want to die alone, or whatever......

I refuse to settle. And if I have to go to my grave without being partnered or finding love, then so be it. I refuse to allow myself to be degraded by just taking whoever comes along and will tolerate me.