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Originally Posted by Scandia
And as Centaur said, there is the not so subtle yet very unrealistic expectation that singles should just be content and serve others- which I simply cannot do.
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My mom was not in the best of health for a long time and one day one of my cousins (actually his wife) said "it would be nice if you would stay around here [here being my dead-end hometown] for the next 10 or so years because of your mom." The implication, of course, was that since I wasn't finding a MAN here in the big city, I should get my butt home and be a caretaker. When I told my mom that, she was so mad I think she wanted to hit my cousin's wife over the head with a pot.
Service is NOT a substitute for love and companionship of a romantic partner. If it were, there would be all-night places to go to teach illiterate adults to read instead of "adult toy stores", LOL.
If you get that kind of pressure on a regular basis, you need to find other types of people to surround yourself with.