Develop yourself instead of waiting for Mr. or Miss Right to come along. Get out of the pity party. Pour time into yourself and into serving others. That's fulfillment.

Single men and women who go home to an empty apartment or a dog or cat or child need adult conversation in their lives.

There's great value in taking months or years or the rest of your lifetime to develop yourself. Discover your goals and talents. Educate yourself. Improve your body, mind and spirit for God so you can more effectively help and bless others, or do it so you will be more attractive to the opposite sex.

Desperation is worn like a dirty shirt others can see, and marriage will not solve your problems. Marriage brings out the best and the worst in who we are. Getting married, without a good groundwork, is simply exchanging one set of problems for another.

All right. I listen. My life sinks a littlefarther, for the pity; from now on I know itwith them. We'll take a stand, wherever the end is.We go forward by this quiet sharing,they one way, I another. I am their promise:no one else is going to know.

No prosecution was desired by either party.