My doctor is reluctant to do the necessary surgery on me since I’ve never had surgery before, and because I’m 46, single, and have no babies... WHYYY?!

My life was very different and much more exciting than all of theirs. I had chosen to remain single, despite the coaxing and threatening that my parents and relatives showered upon me.

“Are you married?” he asked in an urgent and angry tone, and without waiting for an answer he continued desperately. “Please listen. It took me five bad years of a failed marriage to realize that only you and I are meant to be."

I have always heard my mother say that a woman is incomplete without a man. That's what society would like women to believe.

Grief was strange. Weeks would go by without her even thinking of Deep, and suddenly a memory would pop up and totally overwhelm her.