What I meant is that a person who has gone 35+ years without marriage is going to be set in many of their ways.


I disagree.

In many cases, the situation can be quite the opposite. A person who is still single in their 30s may actually be MORE flexible and accepting because they've had time to sit back and evaluate their lives and consider what is really, truly important in a potential partner. There's a very good chance that they are more likely to compromise and change than someone who is younger because they're not as idealistic... they're (hopefully) mature enough to understand the value that can be found in someone that is not like them.

I, for one, am a little more open-minded than I was when I was 18-25.

I think people should always be cautious when dating anyone (male/female) who is over the age of 35 that has never been married.

I think this is a terrible thing to say. I am 34 and have never been married. It's not because I didn't want to be. Believe me, I've looked high and low and worked very hard at every relationship I've had... for various reasons, things didn't work out with any of them. I've never cheated on anyone... I've never lied or been abusive or taken advantage of them. I've done everything I could think of to make things work with anyone that I felt might be worth the effort. However, I suppose my one fatal "mistake", the one thing that has apparently put me in the "Danger Will Robinson" category of unmarried people approaching 35+, is that I didn't SETTLE. I didn't settle for anyone who treated me like crap, who brought me down, or simply didn't want me around. If that puts me in an undesirable category in the dating scene, then I guess I'm just screwed because even if I found someone tomorrow, I wouldn't know them long enough to feasibly consider breaking "the curse".

I'm not trying to be a bitch, but honestly... you can't just dump all unmarried people over the age of 35 into one category because there's too many reasons why a person is unmarried. Many times, it's no fault of their own.