Sadly, those things are not entirely untrue, just terrible to say to teenagers. College is theoretically a great place to seek a partner (though maybe NOT the best time to commit to one longterm) since you’re surrounded by people that share your interests and are close to you in age in a way you won’t be later. And,…

I stopped going to a neighborhood cooking class that I really liked because I was the only single woman there, and everyone else was either there with their kids or their partner, or they would bring up their partner into every conversation. It didn’t bug me in the slightest to be there alone, but everyone acted so…

I am so sick of “society says”....ummm no friend, thats what YOU think and YOU are using “society” as a boogeyman of blame for your own emotions - is how I normally retort. Personally, society has never said fucking shit to me, nor will it ever. “society” can suck the cock I don’t have and never wanted. Society tells…

“Have you noticed that even though you’re okay with your status, it makes other people uncomfortable?”

Also known as “Foundation Wear.” My mother wore the kind that didn’t have “legs”: it was like a super tight bandage skirt. It might have given me nightmares. Makes sense though, when it came to peeing:/

I married the guy I met at 19. We’re still happy 28 years later. But it’s such a crapshoot that I want to tell my nieces not to turn their lives upside-down for any guy, ever.

But you were also spared the experience of a terrible marriage?? What if the rich old geezer wanted kids?? Ewww. Would much rather be independent “spinster.”

....so are you saying it’d be better to be a loveless 42 year old spinster (btw worst word in the English language) with a mansion and a new car from her divorce?

Yes, it’s more the idea that I’m expecting too much for a man to clean up after himself and do his fair share of the cooking/housework/childrearing. There’s this article that came out recently about the emotional labor women do, and reading all the various examples, all I could think was, “I’d divorce that…

My mom has told us, “Don’t disagree with his politics early on in the date.” She also told my sister to go on a second date with a guy who told her he didn’t believe the pay gap between men and women was a real thing. All because the guy graduated from a good school.

My first year out of college, a saleswoman at a high end department store (where I was running an errand for my dragon lady boss) told me to marry a very rich man, get a payday, divorce him and then marry for love later in life.

“But if you don’t get married and have a baby who’s going to take care of you when you’re older?”

Congrats and Happy Halloween to everyone who thinks they’re breaking the news about sleep paralysis to the rest of us.

It’s so crazy that there’s this idea that a woman is doomed to be unloved for the rest of her life after she hits a certain age—but divorced people are able to find other partners later on, and they’ve passed their so-called “expiration dates” as well. Just shows that statistics can give you an overall idea of odds,…

Women expire at 27...did these people watch “The House Bunny?”

“Stop being so picky.” “Let the man think he’s smarter.” “You’re really pretty when you dress up, why don’t you wear makeup more often?”

I will say that when you get beyond your prime birthing years, people stop asking and offering “advice.”

I’ve been told more than once that if I expect things to be 50/50 in a relationship that I’m going to die single. OKAY!

Not really a piece of advice so much, but when I got married the second time someone said to me, “Oh good! Society doesn’t really think of you as an adult until you get married.” I was 37 at the time.

I truly don't know why I subject myself to this thread every year.