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Happily married people: what's your best advice for meeting someone to get happily married to? I need help

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become happy alone first

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and once you're happy alone you'll magically run into people

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I am pretty damn happy alone, and I do run into amazing people, but so far happy alone hadn't resulted in me meeting anybody I wanna marry

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Why did you not want to marry any of them?

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A variety of reasons - not emotionally mature enough, or intimidated by me, or still operating on visible hangups

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👍 was sheer chance for me after that

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do you think you'll know right away when you meet that person you want to marry?

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not necessarily. I knew fast but not right away. Honestly thought first date would be a throwaway so had decided to just have fun.

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I really think once you’re decently well-adjusted it mostly comes down to a combination of chance and what you actually want out of life. I didn’t do anything beyond figure (enough of) my shit out (wip). After that, it was more or less serendipity.