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Single Women Have Something to Say

There’s nothing wrong with being over 30 and single.

3 min readAug 31, 2022

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One of the consequences of being single when everyone else is married with kids is that you tend to be invisible.

Or others only interact with you for a moment since you don’t have anything to bring to a conversation topic that’s aimed at people who are married.

Also, your accomplishments often go unnoticed because you’re single and childless. For single women, It’s when they get engaged, married, pregnant, and give birth that they can join the “club” and be celebrated.

Single Women Have Something to Say.

Life doesn’t revolve around being married and having children. There’s more to your life than finding and having a partner and starting a family.

I don’t say that because I’ve been single all my life and have yet to be in a relationship, so I’m bitter. I say this because we may be single, but that doesn’t mean we want to be left out.

I know firsthand how difficult it is trying to participate in conversations with my siblings when we’re altogether since they’re all married and have kids.

The conversation usually falls into the married life category. (Because they’re married).

There must be something wrong with me, I'm 35, still single, never so much as a first date. If that doesn't state that there is something wrong, that I'm so broken I don't deserve to feel love or intimacy then I don't know what does.

Don’t think once married things will somehow magically change.

Let’s say you get married then it will be oh you still don’t hav kids?

Oh you have only one Kid?

What you have only 2 kids? 3 is actually best. What both boys? One girl will be…