reasons i'd love to say, but can't:
+ because nothing is lonelier than being with the wrong person.
+because i'm exhausted being pursued by bona fide crazy dudes, which have a tendency of souring me on men and relationships (at least for awhile)
+ because nobody told me that i might have an easier time if i spent more time focusing on being a simpleminded, half-witted birdbrain who channeled her intellectual energies in being pleasing and "cute" instead of being myself
+ because i never wanted to be the traditional woman who couldn't wait to get pregnant and raise a horde of babies behind her white picket fence. not every woman needs or wants that.
+ because some of us are afraid of marriage when you've grown up among the carnage and collateral damage of divorce. it takes awhile to address, heal, and grow beyond that. and sometimes it takes YEARS.
+ because it's ok to not get married when you're not ready.
+ because it's ok to be un-traditional, to find the meandering way. because it's ok to be a late bloomer.