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Are Women Over 50 Passing On Marriage?

By Marilyn Katz

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Published: 05Sep2011
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In the past, our culture tended to look at an unmarried over 40 or 50 with a slightly dim view. Some may have felt sorry for a middle aged woman who had to make it on her own. Some married couples may have even felt a little nervous around a single woman over 50. She may have represented a threat to their view of how the world should work. However, our culture has changed a bit.

More and more single women over 50 have decided that finding a husband is no longer on the top of their priority list. A high percentage of these women over fifty have been married in the past, or at least they have had a long term relationship. Of these, many already have children from past marriages or relationships.

If you managed to fill a room with older women who chose to stay single, you could ask them why they did not feel the need to find a long term mate. If you did that, you would probably get dozens of decent and reasonable answers to your survey. In fact, you may get almost as many answers as you had women in the room!

Let us explore some reasons why these women have decided to pass on marriage. The reasons may surprise you, or they may strike a chord with things you have thought about.

Some women feel like they have never recovered from a past marriage or relationship. These ladies want to work on finding themselves before they are ready to seek a new life partner. In this case, the group has not counted out getting married. They are just not ready to seek a husband right now.

Some of these women may have felt burned by a past relationship. Others may realize that some of the problems were their own fault. Either way, they are not ready to make a life long promise to another person yet.

Others have a lot of responsiblity for other family members. They may still be caring for children or elderly parents. In this case, they do not feel like they have the energy or resources to do the hard work of marriage. They feel like they need to dedicate themselves to other family members first.

Still others are just perfectly content being single. These women have a comfortable income, a decent social life, and feel like their cup of life is quite full. They enjoy the freedom of being a single woman. They just realize they are happier when they do not have to agree with a partner about their actions. So these women have decided to remain single in order to stay independent.

The only really sad thing is that some women have just given up on finding the right soul mate. In this case, they are happier with casual relationships and a circle of friends. They think that the work of finding a lifelong partner is just too far out of their comfort zone.

In any case, I think it is important for single women over 50 to keep themselves from feeling isolated. There are lots of new opportunities to expand your social circle. That way, you will probably be happier if you do eventually decide to marry, or if you decide to stay single.

Find a great community of men and women over 50 at our Over 50 Website! You can also learn why some women over 50 are not getting married!

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