Yeah, society does treat you different if you're not like everyone else. I was married once for a short period of time and people treated me differently. As if I wasn't a grown up, mature person before that? If anything being single and independent was more difficult but that's when I am the happiest, so far at least. You'd think by now that attitude would change but it hasn't much. People say the dumbest things to single people. Sometimes they do to make themselves feel better because they're miserable. I got married to fit in and I figured he was the only man that would marry me. It was a disaster. Don't do what I did! Unfortunately it seems it's better to be divorced than never married by my age. People will actually ask you why haven't ever been married, with that look on their face that says "wonder what's wrong with you" 😅. Just laugh, you will be patient and meet the right man, one you don't want to live without, not just a fixture or prop in your life. When their marriages are hitting the skids, you will have a true love that lasts because you were patient. I hope you find him sooner than later! Good luck in the meantime fitting in with the sheeple of the world 😄😀