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In reply to the discussion: Unmarried are invisible, forgotten [View all]LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)8. Amen to that! n/t
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As someone once told me - "Better to be single, than to wish you were." They were right. nt
Mnemosyne
Feb 2013
#6
I hadn't heard it before either, but it was like a lightbulb going off when I did.
Mnemosyne
Feb 2013
#9
That is a good one! I love being single, most of the time. I am very easy going and grew very tired
Mnemosyne
Feb 2013
#55
I married the jerks, learned it the hard way. Of course, being raised by R's that believed women
Mnemosyne
Feb 2013
#22
Plenty of boring women, especially the ones who can talk only about their kids
Lydia Leftcoast
Mar 2013
#112
I escaped three times from guys who resembled my pathological family dynamics.
amandabeech
Mar 2013
#75
A few of my coworkers get to leave work early to attend school functions, sports games
Apophis
Mar 2013
#94
I hadn't realized that, not being from a military background or family,
liberalhistorian
Feb 2013
#39
Military people get paid less, too, if they are single. Family allowances are not insignificant,
MADem
Feb 2013
#64
Interesting framing here as gay couples ARE unmarried, headlines about possible changes to the
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2013
#45
I have no family. no brothers or sisters. So you see where that leaves me.
In_The_Wind
Mar 2013
#109
The government doesn't care. The president has said time and time again he stands up for hard
RB TexLa
Mar 2013
#95
You are, of course, assuming he is using the narrow traditional family definition
Tempest
Mar 2013
#104