tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777757.post6747106656499144200..comments2024-01-25T13:43:16.432-05:00Comments on maggie is restless: Riding the single woman zeitgeistMaggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04659316402556587812noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777757.post-8847463052189583592008-05-20T19:51:00.000-04:002008-05-20T19:51:00.000-04:00More news from Slate on the decision to settle. We...More news from Slate on the <A HREF="http://www.slate.com/id/2184363" REL="nofollow">decision to settle</A>. We settle for men who make good husbands and providers, but we still crave the hottie to father our kids.<BR/><BR/>Is this what I'm doing by dating B and continuing with the inseminations?Maggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04659316402556587812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777757.post-47340093141268634772008-04-18T18:32:00.000-04:002008-04-18T18:32:00.000-04:00That settling article is miserable. it seems like...That settling article is miserable. it seems like the only reason you would want to settle, based on what she wrote, is to have a family. But nobody she cites as having settled really seemed to claim that it ws good that they settled, adn many of the settlements she cites seem not so great:<BR/><BR/>The couples my friend and I saw at the park that summer were enviable but not because they seemed so in love—they were enviable because the husbands played with the kids for 20 minutes so their wives could eat lunch. In practice, my married friends with kids don’t spend that much time with their husbands anyway (between work and child care), and in many cases, their biggest complaint seems to be that they never see each other. So if you rarely see your husband—but he’s a decent guy who takes out the trash and sets up the baby gear, and he provides a second income that allows you to spend time with your child instead of working 60 hours a week to support a family on your own—how much does it matter whether the guy you marry is The One?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777757.post-80009715112847451292008-04-10T16:41:00.000-04:002008-04-10T16:41:00.000-04:00I was a very decisive young man who married very y...I was a very decisive young man who married very young and then divorced and became very indecisive.Woodrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467758362728287442noreply@blogger.com