Why would a religious virgin in her late 50s still think about having kids and getting married?

@texasdaddydom Exactly what I thought but I have to say that this person doesn’t sound to be too clever. She quotes bible texts all day long and has nothing else to say. She is in her late 50s and thinks she is young enough to build a whole new life. I mean, she has what, 20 years left?

@MarieJaneWatson She can build a new life if she has twenty days left - and both my best friend’s mother and my own mother lived to be 93. She might have 35 years left - but she’s probably not going to have a baby. There is fostering, though.

But I mean, why would she now start all over when the most beautiful years of her life are gone to never come back? She even saved herself for marriage and here she is, 58 and a virgin. I wonder if she believes those fairytales about becoming a mother and marrying her prince charming herself or if she says that to give herself some peptalk because she knows she is too old to build up what other people her age have built up? @Mamapolo2016

@MarieJaneWatson How do you know the most beautiful years of her life are gone? Maybe she has never had what she considers a beautiful year and has hope that she will.

I knew a woman who married for the first time (and so far as the general consensus was concerned, she too was a virgin) at 68. To all appearances, it was a happy union and they celebrated 15 years of marriage before her husband died.

Do you think hope and plans and dreams suddenly stop at 30 or something?

Thank you for sharing this much needed perspective.@Mamapolo2016

@Mamapolo2016 Even if she managed to find someone, I mean she’s 58. In those years that she has left she can impossibly catch up on all things she missed out on like raising children, seeing your grandchildren,... She’s too old for all those things. Also, why does she act like a teenager? She calls her date her future “boyfriend” . What nearly 60 year old would still use terms like that? At that age you are very conscious of the fact that your life is almost coming to an end, I think? I mean I’m 23 and I already don’t consider myself that young anymore. Let alone for a 60 year old. And what pleasure is there in being a virgin if you are 58? That’s just creepy. I wonder if this woman might be a little autistic and that she reacts so weird because of that or if it is the result of her having been raised in a religious environment with probably a lack of scientifically supported education?
She told a woman with stage IV breast cancer that she didn’t need to worry about the future of her children because God would take care of that. What normal person would say something so cold to a person who is terminally ill?

@MarieJaneWatson Here’s what I think - free and worth every penny - she has a right to think and say what she wants, just like you and I do. I don’t think because someone thinks differently than I do, they have a mental condition. I just think we disagree. I also keep in mind that it’s plausible I might turn out to be wrong.

I have no way to know what the poor woman with cancer thought about what the woman said - I do think the speaker probably meant it as comfort. Religious or not, some folks can be well-meaning and ham-handed at the same time.

The woman in question may be mad as a hatter or sweetly hopeful. I don’t know.

@Mamapolo2016 If she is religious she has the option to pray about it. If her prayers are answered, that may solve another question..

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@whowasthatmaskedman hahaha :-D thanks for giving me a good laugh :-P

@MarieJaneWatson 😉My Pleasure.👍️