Comments on: On Crackpot Theories, Kelly’s birthday, and being unmarried at 34

By: M

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:48:53 +0000

PeeWee, why the heck have you married someone who wasted your time so, eh?

By: Anonymous B. Nowhere

Anonymous B. Nowhere — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:43:46 +0000

Better (or worse, depends on your point of view) are the questions in regard to a lack of offspring. People assume that I must have at least one child. Due to my age? The fact that I’m divorced? No fucking clue, but the queries get old fast. When I confess that I feel absolutely no need whatsoever to procreate, I instantly turn into a walking freak show who must also be a lesbian. What normal female doesn’t want to have a child? And, if I don’t want to have kids, I must be destined for a lonely life devoid of romance, affection, and love. Or, I’m going to hell. People can’t seem to get it through their thick skulls that having kids is not some sort of obligatory, moral duty.

By: PeeWee

PeeWee — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:32:41 +0000

I am nearing 43, and divorced TWICE. I don’t keep that a secret, and most people I work with know I am divorced. When they find out I am divorced twice, they just stare at me as if I just grew an arm out of my forehead.
Tell me that people don’t look at divorced people like we are super bitches or defective!
I wish I had never been married because I look back on those years as a TOTAL waste of my time! (Me bitter? You betcha!)

By: kara

kara — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:40:41 +0000

I’m with you, Lou. I’m ready to go into retirement just so I don’t have to deal with it anymore. 🙂

By: lou

lou — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:19:06 +0000

Allow me to just add that dating in the 30s has been almost infinitely more complicated than I thought it should be.