Why does it get harder to marry the older you get?

Answer 1

You become set in your ways, living alone and the idea of someone else there to live with you becomes less enticing. Also, for men the sex urge diminishes which is one incentive to marry! Also, once the woman is past the age of child-bearing, the need to be married (for the reason/sake of children) is gone

Answer 2

When you're young, you don't see the potential pit falls of a relationship with the wrong partner. You are usually blinded by lust and the rest just follows. But as you get older, you get wiser and you learn to be allot more cautious about your partner before you risk loosing your independance again. As you are older, and you feel you have less time to waste, you look for true love and this is much harder to find

Answer 3

Well...you know how they say that men are like parking spaces? Especially here in San Francisco.....The good ones are always taken and the rest are handicapped. That was my attempt at a creative humorous answer. Here's my serious side...OH OH! No, really, I believe that it's because we get more selective. at least have more of an idea of what it is we want in a man/women. Some just aren't willing to settle anymore (and some just do) because we have been put through and put others through the wash and the wringer one too many times and we hopefully are more solid, confident with ourselves, making it harder to find "THE ONE". I wish I could tell you how to find him, but I'm still single too! That makes 2 of us and there's only, oh.....another billion out there! Competition, that doesn't make it any easier either! Much luck to you. Hope I helped in some way.

Answer 4

It gets harder to meet new people as you get older because alot of people are settled into their own daily routines and rarely go out making it impossible to meet the one'! why this is i really have no idea i do believe that there is someone for everyone though it is just a case of being patient and not giving up hope.

Answer 5

Because as you get older you get more set in your ways of thinking and doing things, and it becomes harder to find someone who does and thinks the same way as you do.

Answer 6

You are now very choosy know what you want have been burned before so you are afraid of committing. You see a lot of flaws in your partners and you are now older and wiser you are no longer looking at what they look like but looking for want is inside a soul mate and most people are now married, divorced and hate the other gender.

Answer 7

People could be flippant about the reasons. However, as one gets older, compatible age-grouped prospective partners, become less available. One also tends to have higher standards ito what you look for in a life partner. You start questioning, "do I really want to share bathroom with some sloppy male'? or do I really want to lose the freedom of spontaneous decisions?

Answer 8

Confidence goes and a lot of people are to held back to go for the first step towards a chance meeting like joining a singles club or dating agency.
I'm personally in same boat and feel it's like hey too old for the clubbing / pub scene and sit back hoping Mr Right will come along to me .His name must be Mr Right. NOT Always Right.

Answer 9

Sometimes wisdom can be a bad thing! Especially if you've been married before.
Besides when I used to date, I was attracted to men with hair and athletic bodies.....now, I think men with gray hair, receding or bald are cute....but am thinking the "cute" ones that are left, want a younger woman.
Also....some people have taken care of themselves and personally, I'm not sure I want to be with someone who hasn't. Besides all the fat, we have to wonder what the cholesterol is or if they're a heart attack waiting to happen....due to their own poor choices.
I hate to say it, but we're closer to retirement & eternity and how prepared are they for either.....
You also look at how their kids are and wonder about THEIR character & what kind of parent they are, may say alot about what kind of spouse they'll be.
Hmmmm......I wonder why I'm not married.....I'd like to be!
:)

Answer 10

As later, as less single are there, makes it harder to find a partner. And as older you and the other are, as more independent person they are , harder to assemble.