Lisa Gottlieb answers the age-old question, Is it better to be alone, or to settle?

My advice is this: Settle! That’s right. Don’t worry about passion
or intense connection. Don’t nix a guy based on his annoying habit of
yelling “Bravo!” in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal
sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in
place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my
observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the
long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become
more disillusioned with each passing year. (It’s hard to maintain that
level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who’s changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)