For all this talk of “the Wall”, I think in big cities (certainly London in my experience), men need to be alive to the fact that there are a lot of women out there who are totally fine with remaining single well into their thirties and potentially forever

I think your last paragraph applies to elderly men just as much. Social isolation is higher in elderly people especially when their social networks start to die off, or if they never had social networks to begin with.

Also, having a partner in old age doesn’t guarantee that they will take care of you in old age. My friend’s grandmother got dementia at 71 and her husband left her and moved to back to his country to, in his words ‘find another wife’, leaving my friend’s mother to coordinate her care.

I also think more men and women are ok being single than in the past, as bench marks like marriage/kids are less seen as an accomplishment or a definition of adulthood.

People are more free to choose not to get married or have kids or be in a serious relationship without the same stigma that it had, say, 30 years ago.

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