Did it occur to you that she independently took care of herself for all the years she has been single???? I call people that make a choice not to marry, smart.

@Iamkratom Of course but that independence makes it even more difficult to share with another. The question was about deciding to get married after many years of being single.

@Stepmomofdragons LOL You clearly don't know my uncle or myself. My uncle was German and fought 4 years (for the Wehrmacht) on the Russian front. He was captured and spent 5 years in a Siberian Gulag. He loved strong women (a Russian female doctor help him survive the Gulag) and I have a lot of his books about strong women. My aunt wasn't strong she was aggressive and pushy (she was almost 60 when they married) and was the instigator of their arguments.
My late partner came to the US from Iran at 24. She knew no English and had 2 kids and a crappy husband. They got stuck here and in 5 years she graduated from a University, had a third child, an abortion and got her tubes tied. She was the strongest woman I and everyone who met her had ever known. Her Urn has her motto "Discipline first, then love". I love strong, assertive and intelligent women. One needs to learn how to make relationships work and being solitary for a large part of one's life is not how one learns. She was 47 and I was 53 when we got married. She had been in a bad marriage for 25 years and that told her what she didn't want. I had had several relationships and, also, knew what I didn't want. One need practice to make a relationship successful.

Not sure I understand quoting from a book of fairy tales. What does Mother Goose have to say?

You're really quoting the bible for all of us? Do you know which site you are on?