Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!wfi From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: re sex problem Message-ID: <372@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 11:27:57 EDT Article-I.D.: rti-sel.372 Posted: Fri Aug 23 11:27:57 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 13:58:07 EDT References: <1296@hound.UUCP> <5290001@acf4.UUCP> <140@unc.unc.UUCP> <256@gymble.UUCP> <1828@reed.UUCP> Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 34 In article <1828@reed.UUCP> purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva) writes: > ... Does anyone think this is "unnatural"? I mean, does >anyone out there think that it is really abnormal to not want to get >married, or live with anyone ever? Of course there are people out there who believe this. There are also people out there who believe there are invisible aliens in their bones telling them what to do. :-) > ...why does society seem to view >someone who has never married/lived with someone as being possibly, "not >emotionally well" or at the very least, deprived? Most of the people >that I know want to get married someday. ... Try talking to a few dedicated single people over 35. Not one of my friends (or family, for that matter) would EVER think of questioning why anyone chose to remain single. Most 20 year olds I know "want to get married someday." They may change their tune after 50% of their friends and family have gone through ugly divorces (my brother's on his third marriage, for example). The consensus you see on the 'healthiness' of marriage and living with other people is restricted, I suspect, to the younger net.singles crowd. I consider anyone who'd question another person's motives or mental health on the basis of a lifestyle decision like this a nosy anachronism who has a head problem. Or perhaps a young person who just doesn't know any better. :-) I, too, like people, but at the age of 38 I've had it with roommate hassles. My life's half over. I've earned a right to my privacy and to a private space I don't have to share with anyone else. -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly