To think most people would prefer a happy relationship

[gatheringstorms]

Obviously I’m not talking to those who have chosen this for whatever reason, but whenever someone posts to say they are lonely and would like a family, posters insist that being single is great, kids aren’t all that and that they’d swap places with the OP.

To me, most people would prefer a happy relationship over being single.

Single households are rising. It's a factor in the demand for housing (in my country anyway)

I agree that the standard wisdom that being single in your 20s is great and being single in your 40s is miserable is not correct! I had a dreadful feeling of hoping/waiting for a relationship when I was in my 20s but now in my 40s I'm completely at peace with being single.