churn
by rantywoman
This is how I felt at 36 and again at 42:
Wet starts in 2009 in my mid-thirties when I was single and working in Silicon Valley. I was never a girl to worry about an engagement ring. I was more likely to ask, like Peggy Lee did in her hit song from 1969, Is that all there is? In fact, I had become famous as a non-settler when I wrote the book Quirkyalone, which launched a movement of people who choose not to settle in love.
I felt disappointed and disillusioned that actually I had settled. I was burned out, unfulfilled, bored, and hopeless about love, fearful that having written Quirkyalone would only attract singleness into my life.
My resume was amazing, but my life felt very dry, like a giant to-do list and there was no more satisfaction in crossing anything off.
I wanted the script of what a woman is supposed to want: a husband, house, maybe one child, but then again, I didn’t really want that either. The real problem was I didn’t know what I wanted.
thebitterbabe 
Love this blog!
I know this is so off subject concerning the above blog post, but just wanted to ask: Is it okay not to a respond to a FB message from a friend whose previous personality has all but disappeared once she had a baby at almost 41? In four years there has been maybe one post that is not child or cooking for her child related. I am wrong to not want to spend time with her or am I further cutting myself off from old friends?
I would probably respond politely, as you never know what the future will bring and how things might change, but for the present I wouldn’t think of her as a friend who is there for you in the ways that I’m guessing you need, and I would look elsewhere for that. And I would probably hide her posts from my feed!