The need for another: couples and singles
Last night at 4 am, after a very late night filled with drunk knife throwing (not by me, or at me), gaggles of family friends, and a long drive home through snow-crowded streets, I got into bed and read an article in The Atlantic about marriage, and how, due to the success of women but also their oppression, it's difficult to find a good man. I
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What you said here really hits home.
I too am working on being confident and comfortable with self-sufficiency and independence. Most days I'm perfectly good and happy as a single young woman. Hell, I don't know anything else. Not really. I try not to despair when I think about my age and how I'm still single. I do my best to be patient and have faith and hope that someday I'll cross paths with the individual who is a right fit for me. There's a space, like a hole, just waiting to be filled. In the meantime I do my best to live and develop my life. Although I too battle with loneliness from time to time, I know I am not truly alone. I have family and friends, and pets, who love me. But no matter how complete, whole, independent, self-sufficient I become. Despite the fact that life has proven to me that I CAN live on my own. Deep down I feel something is missing, and maybe that "something" is in fact "a someone".
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