Hello, ladies,
I am new - not only to my 30s (birthday was a month ago) nor to the forum, but to serious attempts at weight loss at all. I'm keeping track of calories (starting yesterday, woot!) for the first time in my life.
I find myself at a funny place in my town, because nearly all my girlfriends are either a) significantly younger than me or b) married, and beginning to have children. Now, it's not that being single is my goal in life. I'd love to be in a good relationship, and really desire to marry and have children before my ovaries dry up =). But I prefer no relationship to a bad relationship, and until I meet someone much more promising than the last several I've given a chance to, nothing is happening in the romance department.
All of which is okay - I am happy, and I have a lot of purpose in my life. I am pursuing a deeper level of emotional health than I had in my 20s (mostly working through dysfunctional family issues), and now I'm pursuing better physical health as well. I'm just hoping there are some other ladies in a similar position - because, while I love my married/with children friends, I have enough of them to keep track of around here. And while I have sympathy for those who can't live without a man, I'm not up for daily griping about the opposite sex.
So my question is - what are you 30-something singletons doing to find purpose, create love and wholeness around you, and develop yourselves as people who do not have a biological/nuclear family to care for? How does your pursuit of physical health feed into that?