Editors Note about previous Post (aka Lish's rant there wasn't room for before)

The woman who wrote the content of the previous post wrote an article a couple of years ago that made me want to punch her in the face. It was entitled The Case For Settling or something stupid like that. Basically when she turned 40 and was still single she decided to become a single mom. Once she was a single mother she realized how hard it was to raise a child by herself, and how much harder, and expensive (hello paying a babysitter if you want to go out)it was to find a mate with a baby attached to your hip. In my opinion it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that getting older and having live baggage is not exactly desirable to the opposite sex. But for some reason the author felt the need to write this piece "informing" younger woman in their 20's and early 30's about her new realization. In the piece she gets nostaglic for some former flames. With her new perspective of age, being less desirable, and how hard (yes she actually says she didn't realize it would be hard)it is to be a single mother, she realized how flaky she had been when letting some great guys go. Some of her reasons for breaking up with people, were that they didn't read, she didn't feel like their career was impressive enough, and they were short. Note none of these are real reasons to break up with someone. Hello they don't read???? REALLY? She encouragess younger women to throw away their checklists (I agree with this) and even if they aren't in love, marry a nice guy, so they don't have to take the harder path in life like she did. But the kicker of the whole thing is at the end after going on and on for 5 pages about how finding a companion is more important than finding love she concludes the piece by saying that settling is not an option for her because she has to set an example for her daughter. WTF!!!! She effectively blew all her points out of the water with the last sentence. The piece is condescending, hypocritcal, and like I said earlier makes me want to punch her in the face. That's my soapbox try not to trip on it.