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Old 11-08-2015, 09:13 AM
 
Location: southwestern PA
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In addition to not having married or children I have very little family. So I start to worry about what would happen if I had a severe injury or health crises. Stuff like that.
Stuff like that is what friends and neighbors are for.
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Old 11-08-2015, 10:08 AM
 
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Neighbors? Really? I think that would be pretty unusual. Friends maybe, if you lived close. I don't have that. And honestly I feel like it would be an imposition.

Has anyone ever used a lawyer that specializes in senior clients?
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Old 11-08-2015, 10:21 AM
 
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Me too. I wish I had. But then I see everyone else and maybe its better to not. Wish I had kids, love kids. But other people have weird agendas for being with you that have nothing to do with you. Plus everyone has hpv and herpes nowdays. How did so many people get it if they're all married?
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Old 11-08-2015, 10:24 AM
 
Location: southwestern PA
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Neighbors? Really? I think that would be pretty unusual. Friends maybe, if you lived close.
My neighbors ARE included among my friends.
I have shuttled them to doctor's appointments and the like on several occasions.

Not unusual at all in my area. We are neighbors; we look out for each other!
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Old 11-08-2015, 10:25 AM
 
Location: southwestern PA
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Plus everyone has hpv and herpes nowdays.
Quite the exaggeration, eh?
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Old 11-08-2015, 10:35 AM
 
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Yes a lot of them are secretly gay. For me I get along with only children best or people who have something really wrong with their childhood that they didn't ask for but most other people are freaked out by.
I got lost on the freeway, stopped at a bookstore, there turned out to be a psychic doing a book tour so of course I wanted to stick around for that. I need someone to be ok with it and not on the phone with me constantly "Where are you, I'm on the fifth stair and do I go left or right?"
Thats one of the reasons I moved away from Hawaii. Its overwhelming that we have to wait for someone else, then we have to wait for someone else, meanwhile an hour has gone by. And I'm seen as really rude for leaving. The honor thing and not being rude thing supercedes.
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Old 11-08-2015, 10:35 AM
 
Location: City Data Land
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Any more of you out there?
My wife was able to say that until she married me 5 months ago. She's 51. Now she's thrilled to say she's hitched
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Old 11-08-2015, 10:41 AM
 
Location: Columbia SC
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Any more of you out there?
My son. Has had several live in girl friends over the years but as soon as the subject of marriage and kids came up, he wandered down the road.

Well about two month ago the lightning hit him. Engagement and marriage pending. She is 37 with a 7 year old son. Instant husband and daddy. They do not want additional children.
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Old 11-08-2015, 11:06 AM
 
Location: Hayden
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I have a buddy, 55, never married, no kids. Remember my post about men becoming "spinsters"?
I'm one. I decided not to have children when I was five years old. If you don't want kids the not getting married part is pretty much mandatory.
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Old 11-08-2015, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Minnesota
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Party of one here, also. Doesn.t bother me too much but never imagined it. All my good friends are single as well but still dating and whining.
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